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Building Interior Wall Partitions

Bob and carpenter Bob Ryley demonstrate how to layout and build interior partitions. Ryley lays the framing at 16" centers and measures the top and bottom plates. The studs are nailed into place and the wall is lifted and secured into place.

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" OK now we're in the master bedroom and -- this is going to be the bathroom area in my left here. Out of the shower there and this area was going to be that it might get turned into closet for a stacked washer dryer and lobby closet over there. And I guess Ryley we're only framing up the partition that goes up to this point. -- the roof -- comes down that's right this will be a great feeling in the bedroom part of the addition now and we can step that up individually right after this now. Some want -- why -- we still what do we lay everything out on sixteen inch centers."

" Well I believe the sixteen inch -- camp body before plywood was around as if you -- sixteen and three. You got 48 inches or -- sixteen and -- eight feet a native sixteen and most of the board before I was around came sixteen foot lengths poplar planks right and that eliminated the -- exactly. -- exactly and it's still continues his four by eight sheets of plywood is demand economic sense right now we've got. Premiums where it's also got a sixteen inch side right that's sixteen inches and 24 on the other side see how we lay out. So what we wanted to know is that when we're coming -- from law. And make a mock the length of the shots that is sixteen inches that the Senate passed right so we want to come back three quarters of an inch. Make a mark although we call it into my coordinate who's really one and a half. And we want to make sure we're in the Senate. For a -- Now we know opera studies sixteen inches centered off the wall yes now this -- framing square. That line. In go to the right side and annexed for 16 and -- I am just keep right on going down plates always make it should have -- took both plates they get. Top plate bottom plate together. That's right makes right take a top plate to the top without spinning it around. Right that you could end up with a very. Massing in law that bill into law."

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