Pull your first stud to 15”3/4 then pull 16”. That way your 4’ sheet goods always land on the center of a stud, maximize your material use, less cutting.
Basically you’re 2x4 stud is 1.5 inches thick, and you want the center of it to be dead-on at 16 inches from the last stud. So, you either mark it at 15.25 or 16.75 (three quarters of an inch either direction), and put the edge of that stud on the mark, that way the center will be dead on at 16.
@@pruddz6734 most beginners think that mate. Read fire safety rules to get more insight. Also the studs were close enough to be sturdy on their own, let alone with plates on both side.
How much weight would you say a nonbearing wall can support? For example, if a client wants some heavy cabinets to be hung from the wall. If everyong is mounted into the studs, how many pounds can a nonbearing wall support?
Also don't mark every 16" or everything u do will b wrong. Its 16 on center, you make 3/4 back from where 16 would be. Everything's on center. Mark your boards on the ground like he shows. Build them on the ground nail them down use the nails to pivot the wall in place. Nail it off finish your walls. Have someone come behind and finish fastening ur wall and do the blocking while you move onto the next wall. 4 people is ideal for a team, 3 is doable if everyone's really good. Take advil one day then aleve so you liver doesn't die. Ur gonna hurt, and by the time you get strong enough for it not to hurt. You'll hurt yourself. It's how it goes.
Your supposed to mark every 15 and a quarter" . 16 on center, always. Boards these days arent true 2"/4" SO you will find if you mark it as a 2 by 4. None of your work will be on center. The reasom you go 15 and a quarter is 2/4s these days are 1.5"by 3.5". Half the width of the board is 1.5. Divide that in half(we just call it splitting the difference.) You take 0.75" from center is where your board will sit so you mark a quarter inch less than the red marks on your tape. Which are every 16"
No you don't you mark 3/4 less than where 16 would be. So 15 1/4, 31 1/4 and so on.... This way everything is on center. It's literally just as easy as marking 16, u just mark back 3/4" it takes no more time to do it right.
If you're in a basement or something probably not but it's for fire retarding. It does add somd sturdiness, but the main purpose of blocking is to "block" any potential flames especially when the stud bay goes through multiple floors. Without them any flames would just have a couple 2x4s (the head/foot plate) to burn through and then boom got a 16+ foot chimmuhnee
@@BasicallyNomads Nope. 15 1/4 to side of stud for proper 16OC layout. A 2x4 is 3/4 wide to the middle, thus giving 16OC. Then 31 1/4, 47 1/4, so on and so forth. Hate to be the guy who follows you with drywall or sheathing.
@@evictioncarpentry2628 think about what you’re saying. You don’t actually mark where the center is when you frame. That would take too long to line up. You measure where the side of the stud will fall and make an x to show which side the stud falls on. This makes them all automatically 16 inch on center. If the left side is all 16 from center then the centers must be as well lol
@@BasicallyNomads I don't know how else to explain this any clearer for you. You are 100% wrong. Go look up some videos on how to do it, I guess. Its 15 1/4 from the end for 16OC. I'm not talking about marking centers, these measurements are all to the side of the stud. 15 1/4 plus half the stud (3/4 to center of 1.5inch) is 16OC layout dude. You're wrong. You should take this as a learning opportunity instead of arguing with me because after you look it up, you're going to feel stupid, I guarantee it.
@@evictioncarpentry2628 I’ve done it.. and he doesn’t do it here.. because it’s a waste of time to measure 15 1/4 when instead you just pull your entire tape and mark every red 16 increment.
4 feet ... whose feet? my feet? my mom feet? my neighbors feet? some long dead kings feet? Need some proper value exchange (what i even understand), but otherwise, nice video. feet (or foot?).. lol ... funny americans (and their medival measures) 16 inch -> 40.64 cm 4 foot -> 121.92 cm
Useless video that gives incorrect information… Nice that you built a section of wall for your video that you will never use for anything and added useless, blocking at 4 feet that’s completely unnecessary and you don’t tell people how to lay out the wall properly… Mark your first stud from the outside edge at 15 1/4, and subtract three-quarter of an inch from your 16 inch measurement/red mark on your tape measure for each next stud… Or explain that you are taking your measurements from the inside of that first stud. Then when you get to 4 feet or 8 feet on your wall, your sheet goods, plywood or drywall… Will land in the center of the stud where they need to be… Then you have room for the next sheet and something to nail to… Nice that you’re trying to educate people but learn how to do it right first… or you probably know know how to do it right but figure out how to explain it to people that don’t work in Construction… lumber is expensive… And now you’re viewers need to buy a sawzall to fix their mistakes that you taught them
