TIMBER WALL FRAMING

Although brick houses are very popular in western australia, traditional timberframed construction is widley used.

The first step in setting out for walls is to mark out the positions of every stud, windows and doors on the top and bottom plates. We do this by laying the top and bottom plates on side by side ensuring their ends are flush together. Then by reading your plans we measure and mark everythings position on the plates. Then by working out off the plan we find out the hight of your common studs jack studs and the length of sill trimmers lintels and noggins. Once all your timbers are marked and cut out its time to nail them all together. By doing this the wall plates are layed on the floor and the studs are placed in between them ensuring their all bowed the same way. Nail them all together and nail in any noggins lantels or sill trimmers. In any door ways we cut half way through the bottom so they can be easly cut out at a later stage. We then check the wall for square and put on the approiate bracing.To stand the wall up lift them up and hold in place with temporary braces,by putting a string line along the top and bottom plates we can get them dead straight and level for plumb.Any corner studs are reinforced by fixing blocks cut to size and nailed in.