Yes I am still picking away at this Garage wall in my SPARE TIME !!! Found some strange layout in this wall. Seems to be laid out from both ends of the wall to the center of a window & misses the break at the first & last sheath of plywood, although the layout from top to bottom seem to be plumb. Tell me if I STARTED this layout WRONG ?????? Went from one corner from the bottom plate corner stud to second stud 16″ center from there 16″ and away for all other studs & cripples. Than did the same from the top from the same corner stud . First spacers 13 3/4″ top & bottom all other spacers 14 1/2″ top & bottom accept around window cripples. This gave me a good brake at the plywood spacing. I am happy BUT the studs are out of plumb by about 3/8″ not good for around the window which is the next section to do. Wondering if I should of went by the original layout lines & just added extra studs at the first & last plywood breaks ??.What do you think ??? PREVIOUS POST REPLACING STUDS IN GARAGE IN WALL.
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On something like this you do whatever works, and don't second-guess yourself. If you gotta put in extra studs do it.
Thanks for the reply, Having been a Toolmaker working within tolerances plus or minis .010 or less makes it hard to do anything because we try to work to close tolerances when we shouldn't. FORGOT ONE THING FUDGING!!!
> hard to do anything because we try to work to close tolerances when we shouldn't.Yeah, it's known as polishing a turd.
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WHERE'S all the pros at!!!???
Work.
Since you made the window RO significantly larger than the window itself, just mount the window level and plumb.
If you didn't do that, see post #2 above.
SamT