24" on-center wall studs aren’t uncommon in building practices today
Most residential interior walls are 16"
If their house is single-story, then 24" would fit in a lot of local building codes.
Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 10 months agoYour house is incorrect. 16" on-center wall studs have been a thing for way more than 30 years.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 10 months ago
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 10 months ago
If any of you find a house on the market with 24" centered 2x4 walls–run. That won’t be the only thing they went cheap on.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Engineered roof trusses have made most interior walls non-load-bearing. 24" on center is fine for such walls. Exterior, load-bearing walls are still 16" OC, though.
conditional_soup@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I spoke with a firefighter I know about those trusses. He said they were the worst thing to ever happen to fire safety and that he refuses to buy a house with them, because once they start getting hot, you’ve maybe got two minutes before that stupid staple plate pops off. Two or three trusses get their stupid little plates popped off and the whole house is coming down. Makes house fires way more dangerous and time sensitive than they already were, apparently.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
My great grandfather built a punch of apartment complexes back in the 70s, if their house is anything like those well… standardly annoying is the words that come to mind.
billwashere@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Non-load bearing interior walls less than 8’ tall are often 24” studs.