Hi, I’m Bill with BGB Builders. Our project today is building a closet. I’m here with my wife and assistant Genna and we’re going to show you how to layout our studs and our plates that are going to create the walls.
The first thing we’re going to do is to cut our plates to the proper width. Now, if you remember the width of the closet was 59 inches. Now I’ve cut my top and bottom plate three and half inches less than that, so I leave enough room for the other wall to tie into it, but I did leave the third plate at 59 inches. The third plate is at 59 inches and the first two are at 55-1/2. The third plate is left along so that it will tie into the other wall.
Now, let’s go over laying out our door that we’ve got in here. Now, the first thing that I want to do is find the center of the partition. Since it’s 55-1/2 inches we’re going to take half of that which is 27-3/4. Now this marks the center of our door and I’m going to go ahead and mark that and I’ll put a C there for center.
Now, the next thing you need to do is figure out how wide your door is going to be. I’m going to use a two foot eight door which with 32 inches, but I also need to leave two inches as a rough opening so that the actual door will fit inside. So that leaves me 34 inches. So, if I take a half of 34 inches which is 17 on each side and I’ll do that again on this other side. Now, that will give me the width of my door. So let’s go ahead and mark those.
Now, I’m going to go another inch and a half two times so that I can get a jack which is what actually—they call it a stud. There’s a stud and there’s a jack. The jack holds up the header of a door and another inch and a half for the stud and I’m going to mark these both with an X.
Now, the last thing that we needed is a stud on our outside. So I’ll just mark an inch-and-a-half in from the outside and put an X there as well and I’ll do the same on my other side. So, that will be to mark the jack and mark the stud and mark the outside.
We’ve got our bottom plate marked and the last thing you need to do is to transfer those marks to your top plate. So, I’ll line them up and this speed square is designed to be long enough for both plates. So you can go ahead and run your pencil all the way through and do the same on the other side.
You don’t need to mark the ultimate top plate being that the studs were already attached to this top plate and you don’t need the markings for that. The last thing we’re going to do before we’re actually going to build our wall is figure out the height of our studs.
So let’s measure our floor to ceiling height of our room and that measurement is 121. Now this is not the height of my studs, I still need to deduct off three times the width of these plates.
So, I measure these plates, they’re each an inch and a half deep so if I multiple that by three that will give me four-and-a-half inches and if I take that off of my 121 inches that will give me 116 and half inches for my studs.
The next thing we’re going to do is to layout our studs and actually construct our wall.
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