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.
Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYour house is incorrect. 16" on-center wall studs have been a thing for way more than 30 years.
vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
billwashere@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Non-load bearing interior walls less than 8’ tall are often 24” studs.
Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
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.
psycho_driver@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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.