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I need help building my new home. Two of the exterior walls are over 35 feet long and they need to be build in two parts. Where do I break them. I know that the top double plate has to overlap any breaks at least 4 feet but because of the windows and interior walls I can’t find a place to allow it to overlap this much. I hope I explained it correctly. I enclose the pictures for anybody willing to help. (sorry for the poorquality).
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Dariusz,
It's nice to have the 4' overlap, but sometimes you can't. I'd just double up on studs at the break and carry on. Break on a full length wall though and not over one of the windows. Looking at your picture I'd be more concerned about the gaps in the top plate (between the windows) It seems you are going to place an interior wall in those two places? If so you need a 3 stud solid channel beneath the tie-in. (LI)like this. The flat one faces into the room as a backer for the interior wall. Good luck. PS Where you from?
*Dariusz,Why are you needing to build these 35' walls in two pieces? Are you prefabbing them off site? Also I couldnt help but notice that your window and door headers look like they are 2x laid on the flat. Am I seeing that right?JonC
*I'm thinking that you break the wall in the middle ,on a stud ,build them , stand them , put in the stud where your break is, top plate it , and your on your way.Good Luck ,Dave
*Dariusz,Split the wall between the garden door and window to the left. Run your top plate continuous and just notch out a 2.5"x3.5" piece to tie your interior wall top plate into. Finish the ends of the wall halves with a stud (making a double stud when stood), and overlap your wall sheating at the joint to help tie it together. Or better yet, borrow 3 wall jacks and do it in one piece.
*a common house dimension might be 28x40..walls in excess of 35 feet are built and stood up all the time....where are you building this ?if you can't physically lift a 35 ft. wall, and you can't get two wall jacks..you could change your window headers to solid..and shove the header up to the bottom of teh plate..split the walls at the windows.. then install the headers and run your top plate over the joint in the plate breaking over the header....but 35 ft. is not a long wall...
*It looks to me like he has drawn this wall up stick by stick which earns him my compliments. But I still would think that he needs to address the window and door headers and put cripples underneath the ends of the windowsills. JonC
*While you are addressing the headers and crips, you could add partition backers,solid corners, double sills,And go back and layout 16 o.c. from one corner (top and bottom plate the same)including crips (it helps when applying sheet rock and sheathing). then go back and add jacks and additional crips. D.G.B.
*Tell you what, Dariusz, let me know what time to show up tomorow morning and I'll come frame it for you. Got an hour or two to spare anyways.
*By the way, the previous post WASN'T meant to be sarcastic! But really, I do have an hour to kill.
*I am a little confused about how you can run a continues top plate. Even if you build the whole wall on the ground you still need to use several 16' 2* and if you build 2walls you still need three sections of top plate I am not quit sure about the scale of your drawing but it looks like you can center a 16footer and add a 10 footer on each end. Break your 2nd plate at your interior partitionsI believe that leaves you with plenty of stagger. D.G.B
*I meant continuous through the notch for the interior partition. Instead of having a 5 1/2" deep pocket (assuming the ext wall is 2x6), run a plate through and notch it 2 1/2" to create a pocket to tie your int top plate into.
*or, just skip the notch altogether and flush plate the interior wallthe overlapping plate is optional, not structural. Not breaking it gives you options on the top plate break.nathan
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I need help building my new home. Two of the exterior walls are over 35 feet long and they need to be build in two parts. Where do I break them. I know that the top double plate has to overlap any breaks at least 4 feet but because of the windows and interior walls I can't find a place to allow it to overlap this much. I hope I explained it correctly. I enclose the pictures for anybody willing to help. (sorry for the poorquality).