Wood Doors & Iron Doors

Monday, July 16, 2007

 

Trade Secret

The distance from the top of the header to the top of the king stud is the length of the cripples. You can either measure this distance or hold an oversize block in position for marking.

lower stories. If plaster or drywall prevents you from seeing the actual beam, you can drive a finish nail in a few places to see if it's solid inside. If there's a wall above this beam on the next story, it's probably a load-bearing one.

Framing an opening in new construction
With new construction, I precut and assemble all of my frame components for door and window openings, then install them as I'm building the wall. The process I describe here is for a non bearing wall.

1 . Cut the jack studs to the height of the rough opening less ½ in. to allow for the thickness of The bottom plate. Nail the jacks to full-height king studs to make two double-stud assemblies.Is cut and removed from the opening later.Cripple stud Bottom plate (removed from the opening later)the bottom plate.

2. Cut the pieces for the header to the width of the rough opening plus 3 in. (the combined thickness of the two jack studs). Assemble the header, and then lay it on the floor on edge.

3. Lay the double-stud assemblies in position at each end of the header and drive four nails through each king stud into the end of the header. Then nail on the top plate and bottom plate.

4. After cutting the cripples and marking their location on the header, toenail (angle nail) them bet«-een the header and the top plate.

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