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[lilranch2001]

96 minus 4.5

 

[Diggin It]

If standard framing material is being used...using a double top plate on walls framed with "pre-cut" studs (92 5/8")...Walls will not fit under an 8' ceiling...92 5/8" + 3" for top and bottom plates = 95 5/8"...It is not common to hang ceilings before interior partitions are framed/stood...

If double top plates are required typical pre-cut studs will require further cutting...Also...unless it is a designed bearing wall...any other interior walls are not supposed to be framed up tight under trusses etc...they should be about 1/2"- 3/4" below but close enough to so top plates can be fixed with a framing nail etc. to plumb them...

This guy sort of explains it:

Do precut studs make sense? - Fine Homebuilding

The finished wall is just a bit over 96". Once the framing is done, the ceiling drywall goes up first - flush to the top plate.. Then the sidewall sheets go up, raised flush to the ceiling sheets and off the floor. That leaves a gap that can be adjusted as necessary for plumb and square. But he also talks about a single top and bottom plate while others seem to like a double at the bottom.

 

[/pine]

This guy sort of explains it:

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professional contractors (retired or not) don't need it explained...!

 

[buckeyefarmer]

If you really want to twist somebody around, ask them the length of a pre-cut stud.



Hint, 96" it ain't.

Theres 2 sizes of precuts.

 

[/pine]

Theres 2 sizes of precuts.

Anything that is labeled a "stud" is "pre-cut" regardless...

 

[Jstpssng]

Anything that is labeled a "stud" is "pre-cut" regardless...

I wasn't, and never will be. Bwa,HA Ha Ha Ha!!

 

[turnkey4099]

^^^^
Now I know, but I cheated.

I used to know that but haveing built anything since 1983... 93?...931/2? thickness of 3 2xs but I think there is another 1/2" to be subtracted somewhere.

 

[sixdogs]

Yeah, in the olden days, the rumor was you could do it, but you had to get it up to about 50 mph. Never tried it, never saw it done.

starting - Push start a car with automatic transmission - Motor Vehicle Maintenance & Repair Stack Exchange

I was involved as an unwilling participant in doing this back in the early 1960's. I worked in a garage and occasionally we did this. We had to get the cars going fairly fast but I think it was well below the 50 MPH mentioned.

 

[sixdogs]

What about cell phone use at a gas station?
What about not towing with a truck until 500 miles on the engine?
How about the use of synthetic oil in small engines like lawnmowers and such?
What about waiting 100 hours on a farm tractor before switching to synthetic?

True or false?

 

[lilranch2001]

what about blondes have more fun?