G'day and welcome back to Buildsum and in this video. I just want to show you how we arrange our studs at a wall intersection
So this is also known as a stud cluster
So I'm gonna show you, start with an external wall
Or an external corner, and then we'll just go through all the other options
So as you can see here. I've got one wall the bottom plate of the wall
Coming up and it butts in to this wall at a 90-degree corner
So the first thing I always do is the wall that butts in always put a stud on the end of that wall
Okay, obviously that would run the full height of the wall to the top plate
We don't need to see all that information, so just showing you the bottom half
So stud on the end of the wall that butts in now the wall that runs past
we've got to have a couple of different things on it first thing we have to do you have to make sure that on the
inside of our corner
We can actually pick up our internal lining at gyprock or whatever
We're going to line their internal walls with we so we set this stud here just in past
Where our wall butts in so it's a nice tight you know studs meet at the corner
And we can nail our Gyprock through both ways to fix that off
However, that doesn't really help us join our walls together because it'd be a real pain to nail across to those studs
You know putting a skew nail or whatever in so the easiest way to fix that is just to throw in a block
so the with these blocks the timber framing code says there have to be a minimum of 200mm on and
spaced every 900mm up the wall
Okay, so that block there. It just gets nailed onto the back of this stud
And that means that when we stand this wall in against it. We can just now straight through and into the block
You know realistically if you're doing a brick veneer type building
That would be all you would need on this stud cluster
Because you won't need an external corner stud because there's nothing to fix to it
Okay, but if you're doing a weather board or you're putting blue board or something on the outside of your frame
Obviously you're gonna need a stud running right up a corner
Okay, so there's our stud on the corner and also gives us somewhere we can fix through this stud
Into our corner start to fix our wall off
So that's a an external type corner doesn't matter whether it's internal to the house or external to the house
That's an internal tight corner setup
Our external type Corner setup all right. 90 degree corner
If there you go just have a quick look at that
Alright so if we were gonna have the other option which is basically a 'T' intersection
Then obviously there's our plate layout you've got one more butting into the middle of another wall
Okay
Commonly this can also be used where we join a wall so or join our plates so if we were going to join this wall
we could join it on this side of the intersection or we could join it on the other side of the intersection and
the way we put the studs together just tie all that ties all that together so
Again the first thing I do is on the wall. That's butting in. I'm gonna put a stud
and that'll give us somewhere to nail into our adjacent wall and
Then in this case the wall that the other wall that's butting in or what other wall that ends at the intersection
I'm gonna put a stud on there as well
Again that gives us somewhere on the inside of the corner that we can nail off our Gyprock to
there we go, there our Gyprock so obviously that supports our Gyprock
So you get back around to the other side now
The next thing we need to do is on this side of the intersection or this side of this stud
We need to have a stud that's going to support
the Gyprock on this side of the corner so we can put a stud on there and
That again that helps support the Gyprock on the inside of the corner or whatever our
internal lining happens to be
Then the going back around at the back so obviously what we had before
Let me just see if I can find it there you go there what we had there
Doesn't really help us support this internal
Wall or this wall coming in here does it can't attach to it, so what we have to do is
put a couple of
blocks
So we put these blocks in here again minimum 200mm
every 900 up the wall that they just nailing well, you'd nail them off this stud initially
then when you stand this wall up you now through this stud into the blocks and then when you stand the
this wall up in here you would now through that stud into those blocks so that would help form that corner
Now that's all well and good, but sometimes what happens is
You end up if you're doing a renovation or an extension or if you just totally miss the wall intersection when you're building the wall
It may end up with a wall. That's kind of butt in between two existing studs in this case so
Again the process I always use is the wall that's butting in it has to be a stud on the end of that
And then what you need to do is you just put noggins in
every
now the timber framing code says every 900mm you can put a noggin in all right personally I always go with whatever
my stud spacing is I will put noggins in at that just so the gyprock has some support on the inside as well
all right, see there's nog between that that particular row of studs and
That will provide you support for your wall and provide your support for internal lining
Yeah, all right so there you go there are basically three different
Stud cluster scenarios that we can use that join our wall frames
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