How to layout wall studs 16" on center o.c. Wood Frame

hey everyone my name is Adam I'm going to show you how to lay out a 16in on Center wall here's a quick refresher on wall Anatomy you have a top plate and a bottom plate nailed into the ground or the subfloor and then you have your studs okay first start with your top and your bottom plate lay it down on a table or the floor line them up end to end now um if it's going to be nailed into concrete you're going to need pressure treated not this but if it's just subfloor you can go with that now most measuring tapes will have markings on them in red you can see 16 16 they're all red now the 16 in is where the stud needs to go and it's going to go every 16 in you can see they're all marked in red again so that's just a helpful tool on a measuring tape to show you where to put your studs so the end of every wall is always going to have have a stud so you can put an x on there just like that then if you put your measuring tape down go all the way along until you see 16 in now that's 16 in on Center that's where the stud's going to go right in the middle that's what on Center means the center of the stud so what you need to do is actually measure because a stud is uh an inch and a half wide divided in half you need to measure back 3/4 of an inch so the first mark would be 15 and 1/4 in does that make sense okay so my marking is 15 and 1/4 in there that's 3/4 of an inch back and 32 set 3/4 of an inch back and the next one ends up at 4 ft set 3/4 of an inch back after 4 feet comes 64 in so 3/4 of an inch back this stud will go here and you just keep going all the way down to the end of the stud every 16 in and you put a little X on the side where the actual stud will be okay now we have it all marked out all the way down the board I need to transfer these marks to both top and bottom plate and I need them at uh right angles I want to make sure the lines I draw are square so to do that you need to have a square now this is just a regular um um Square here you can see it has a lip it butts right up against this wood so it's a nice easy way to do it and this you can also use as a framing square now you might notice that this is a wide Edge and this is a thinner Edge this thinner Edge is the exact width let me grab one here of a 2x4 so that's really helpful for marking I'll show you in a second they also make uh what are called speed squares and those speed squares um are great for this tooo because they have a metal lip anyway I'll put it on this side remember this needs to be flush and you don't really need to do it on the end because you know where the end goes but I'll show you anyway see this width here if I lower this framing square down here it X um pretty good to help frame it up so just a line here and that's where the 2x4s would go so on this one I have my X I know where that 2x4 is and because the width of this is the width of a 2x4 I just draw it on both sides now I know exactly obviously here and here is where the 2x4 is going okay I'll show you again at the 32 Mark put the square down line it up here with that Mark and that's how to do it all the way down okay so you might be wondering what's the big deal does it have to be exactly 16 in uh you know for some reason sometimes in construction you might want to move something over um the reason why it's 16 in is that's the way building materials come if I put out a piece of sheetrock it needs to end at the middle of a stud you don't want your sheetrock to be over uh too far or not far enough so that you can't secure it to the wood also insulation will come in 16 in and other things are like that it also helps when everything's sheet rocked up and your walls are done if you need to know where studs are if you find one stud you're going to know that there's another one 16 in here and another one 16 in here so uh it's best to do that now I'll show you um a few other things okay this might look like a mess but it's not this is a load bearing wall so you still have your 16 in on Center but you need additional studs the Builder put in to take the weight off of everything that's above this is multistory house so there's a lot of weight on this wall so they added more studs in between but still kept it 16 in so you're going to go 16 in over here's the next 16 in here's the next 16 in even though there's more in between you want to keep it so that you're building materials still line up now you might also be tempted when you're laying them out at the very end of the the wall to think oh it's so close I'll just keep it here still keep it at 16 in they put in another one here and kept it at the 16in Mark even though you're almost at the end of the wall and that's what you want to do you just want to stick with it so that's the end of the video I hope it's been helpful and again staying to the 16 in will really help your drywaller they'll love you for it and if that drywallers you you're going to love yourself for sticking with it so anyway have an awesome day thanks for watching

Channel: AdamDIY

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Keywords: wall, Timber Framing (Material In Fiction), Wall Stud, Wood, How-to (Media Genre), 16, 16 inches, on center, o.c., top plate, bottom plate, 2x4, framing, framer, DIY, home improvement, Do It Yourself (Website Category), Building

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Length: 5min 59sec (359 seconds)

Published: Thu May 01 2014