DIY Garden Room Stud Wall Construction

hi everybody and welcome to video number three in this DIY Garden Room series and in this video I'm going to be showing you how you can make the walls as you can see on the screen right now these are the walls they're basic standard stud walls and they're covered in OSB it's quite simple but if you know them before it might seem a little bit daunting so I'm going to show you how to do it in this video the first thing to do is we're going to cut two pieces of Timber while the ones on the screen here for the top and bottom of the stud wall and this is going to be followed by marking it out for the studs so I'm using 400 centers for my build and this is what I recommend for you as well as you can see here I'm just marking this out with a pencil and a square so each story is going to be 400 from the last one and they're all going to be the same length because the back wall is a level wall it doesn't have any slope on it so this is relatively simple at this point all we need to do is just cut the 11 Timbers for that Boxford wall exactly the same length so I'm using a chop saw if you don't have a chop saw obviously you can do this by hand just make sure you take a little bit of time make sure the cuts are nice and straight and you shouldn't have any problems at all so you can see my hair just chop in with the chop saw and then I'll Speed the video up you don't need to see me doing this in real time for the 411 Timbers but you get the idea I'm just going to cut them all at once I'm going to stack them to the left here and also you'll notice over on the right hand side I'm making a nice little pile of Noggins there which I can use later in the build so they'll be saved for later on okay so once this is done we're going to move back down to our top and bottom rails I guess you'd call them for the back stud wall here I'm just going to spread these out so we can lay our studs in between and that's all we're going to do we're just going to use the marks that we made before the 400 centers to line these up and just basically lay it out ready for fixing so again we'll just speed through this bit you don't need to see me laying these out slowly and then once that's done it's just a case of fixing the wall together and I recommend adding two fixings into each stud at either end for me personally I'm using a nail gun here because I have a nail gun if you don't have a nail gun by all means you can use a hammer to drive the nails in or you can screw the stud wall whichever is uh easiest for you I guess is there's no right or wrong way necessarily here the nail gun obviously is the the quicker and easier where so that's my personal preference because I have access to that okay so at this point I'm I'm working on my own my brother's actually coming to help me later in the day but at this point I just wanted to get going and I've just created a little prop here just to stand the wall up so it doesn't fall over on me and that's just temporary while I had these little braces on the side which I'm basically just going to hold the wall relatively plump and securely just so I can fix it to the bottom here to the floor and then following that I'm going to move on to the side walls so this is not the most scientific method that I used here um I'm sorry about the kind of Jumpy film in here but I just wanted to kind of show you how I did it I basically just laid two Timbers up against the wall on the floor and I just marked the high end and the low end because this is going to be a slope on the roof that's going to be around 100 millimeters of fall from front to back so I basically just spread these out as they would have been front and backstored and then I divided the 100 millimeter fall by six they had to get the seven different studs so you can see the measurements and that meant there was a 17 millimeter fall on each stud so by doing that then I could lay this across and I can also get the angle there on my bevel which can be transferred to the saw to cut these Timbers so as I said not the most professional wear but you know it worked the cuts were were fine there's probably a much better way of doing that with trigonometry or something but I didn't know how to do it so that way it worked fine so my brother's turned up now and we're just going to build this wall all the teams have been caught you don't really need to see me doing that again it's exactly the same process um nailing it together or screwing it together exactly the same process again then we're just going to stand it up into the corner and it's just a case at this point of fixing the corners of the two stood walls together nice and flush and this basically is going to leave it freestanding then you can remove the brace from the the side that was supporting the back wall because this sidewall is essentially gonna counterbalance it and hold it in place so I'm just fixing it to the floor as well so this is uh just been screwed to the timber deck below us and once that's done we can move on to the other side which again is exactly the same process so there's no need to watch me cut in every single piece of timber here essentially we're just going to line it all up again my brother's just there uh kind of putting some weight against the other side while I fix it and then we're both just going to lift it up into place to form the Ryan side wall and there you go so we've actually made pretty quick progress this was probably around 10 in the morning at this point and we've already built three walls so I think you can see that this isn't you know it's not that difficult to do I think it's probably a lot easier for two of you to do but you know as I showed with a problem before it could be done on your own so following this we jumped onto the ISB on the back now the main reason for this rather than starting on the walls on the front is I wanted to plumb the walls up and one of the best ways to plumb them up and get them like secure and sturdy is with the USB because of the machined edges these boards are square so you end up because my base is completely level remember the the corners ended up being nice and Plumb so we started doing that before we built the um the front sections the side bits that we're going to hold the lint on of the door opening okay so at this point you can see the side little stud wall here which I haven't I didn't film I'm actually building this but I did film the next one now unfortunately at this point we'd run out of Timber so we decided to build this one and we just kind of braced it in place and then me and my brother just finished off always being around the rest of the the structure and unfortunately I had to come back to this the following day after I'd gone to Baltimore Timber so we ended up finishing it about half two here it might not have even been that it might have been a little bit earlier but we just run out of Timber and everywhere was shut at that point so the following day well in fact I lied we went to we I went to Wix in the end and weeks would have been open but I didn't think of that until the following day because this was a weekend while we were doing the work so you can see I've just marked it out the same as a normal stud wall but one of them's longer than the other so this is how we've done these cheeks on the front so essentially you've got the bottom one there that's um longer and the top one uh is the sharper piece but the marks on them for those three studs are exactly the same so I'd actually run out of nails at this point so I screwed this so you can see that obviously you can screw these you don't have to nail them I had to go buy some new nails but just you know for this for this one while I just decided to screw it and then for this next bit I just had a short piece of wood there that I caught and a little bit to kind of bridge across there to carry the lintel so it's a pretty simple not terribly complicated at all as you can see nice light little wall so it's quite easy to work on my own here although at this point I I did have to get some help to just line this corner of perfectly because I couldn't see around the corner while I was fixing it but luckily my father-in-law is going to make an appearance in a couple of minutes to give me a hand it just popped around to see the grandkids so that was a struggle look here it is and he just helped me by holding the wall just while I put a few fixings in it just to get it right so once that was done before I fixed the bottom I wanted to make sure that the LA the walls both line through nice and straight so I added a chalk line you can see there I've put two little chocks of wood at the bottom uh with a string line sorry not a chalk liner String Line wrapped around them and basically I just used a little spacer to check about the edge of the door do you have to make sure they were lining through so I I probably could have got a better video of that but unfortunately this is this is the this is all I got following that I just uh as you can see there I've plumbed the opening up and put some braces on and then it's time to add the lintel so the lint hole here is just two pieces of five by two which I'm at first I'm going to just nail them together I'm just making sure they're nice and flush and even and lined up perfectly and they're just going to get eight or ten Nails you know I just work my way along and just nailed it and just made sure it was fixed together and then following that I'm going to use some quartz bolts just to really bother together and really make this solid so as you can see I've just got my drill with an auger bit in it you can use some spare bits or just a standard wood drill a bit just make sure it's big enough to I'm at the hall for the for the quartz bolts my battery's running out so I'll just make one out of the nail gun and then yeah we just push them through and then it's just the case a hammer in the course bolts through and putting the the washers and the nuts on them so I'm just going to drill through them quickly my boy there Stanley saying hello and he's just gonna come help me now putting these washers and these bolts on so it's pretty simple it's not really complicated stuff we're just going to wind the we're going to put the washers on and just wind these uh bolts up and then it's just a kiss of popping it in place now you can see at the on the back of the wall there there are two pieces of wood these actually two pieces of just decking board that I had lying about you could use any piece of wood but it's basically just to stop it falling off the back and prior to fixing I'm just going to add two pieces to the front as well because obviously I don't want anybody walking under this and it falling off and uh clawing them on the head myself included so I'll just fix this in place just to make sure it's safe and then following that I'm just going to add some screws underneath into the lint all through the stud work and also through the back through the side and this is just going to hold it securely in place obviously we're going to put OSB on this as well so that's going to hold it even more securely so you know this little is going nowhere with you know it's probably gonna have about four four to six screws either side if I remember correctly and then the OSB over the top which is obviously nailed to it and then the roof's going to tie it in as well so it's it's going to be very secure up there okay so the next job here is adding the OSB so it's just a case of cutting this and finishing finishing the walls off basically so I'm just here adding a little bit to the side and then I've just got a few pieces to put on the from okay so then we're going to add this piece of OSP on the front we've got another piece for the other side which is going to go on here and then finally we need a piece for the top now I actually had to modify this a little bit because the end of the Court bolts were just pushing it off so as you can see here I'm just going to Chisel out a little bit from the back just just to give enough space for that round uh head of those chord bolts to just sit into the ISP so it doesn't push it off and leave a gap in hindsight I could have countersunk them I guess uh that would be another way of doing this but this this is the way I did it just because um I've not I've not thought to countersinki prior to to doing this but yeah this took this only took a couple of minutes it was pretty simple as you can see and it serves the same purpose almost that's done it just fitted on you know nicely there was no gaps anymore and it just finishes the job off yep just till we go a couple of nails and that was the final piece of the job so I started about eight Nails across the top here 10 Nails perhaps just hold this in place and there we go that's the job done or this part of the job at least so the next job is going to be out in the roof and I think you would agree at this point it's looking pretty good so I'll see in the next video where we're going to be putting the roof on and uh yeah I'll look forward to seeing you I hope you enjoyed it

Channel: The DIY Fix

Views: 17,201

Keywords: garden room walls, garden room stud walls, diy garden room walls

Id: FsI8CRfjF6c

Length: 13min 45sec (825 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 14 2023