Still no great response as to how to incorporate a wood stud wall on a metal building. Should I not incorporate and just build a stud wall, just inside the exterior metal wall? , or, what is the correct way to attach it to the metal wall. Also, since this is a shop,..what would be the correct way to attatch anything to the metal walls. I will have work benches and a lumber rack and shelving. the bays are 20 feet apart and the nearest horizontal steel is 7′ 6″. thanks
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Ward answered your previous post in General Discussions (me, too).
See http://forums.taunton.com/tp-breaktime/messages?msg=28366.3
My attachment shows what the engineer called out for a rated wall against the exterior of a metal building. But that was using metal studs 18' tall and getting the rock on both sides of a wall that was right up against the insulated shell of the building. No stand up wall this one.
Does not sound like you are building a rated wall. Build the wall on the floor at what ever finish height you want. Nail a 1x6 strap at the 7'6" height, tip the wall up, plumb it and shoot it to the floor and the girder through the 1x strapping. Or use quick bolts and self tapping sheet metal screws. Build each bay this way and then go back and box in around the colums that protrude from the wall line. Insulate, wire, plumb, and finsh to taste.
Dave
now THAT,..I understand!
Sounds like you have 15' side walls. Am I right?
In my commercial days, I built a bunch of those things. Those tappered steel colums are a pain because you have to give up to much floor space square footage behind the wall to keep them out of the wall plane. If you own the building it is real hard to give up 50 to 80 sq. ft. between each colum isn't it? After all you built or bought the thing for all the square footage.
Dave