Timber frame wall preparation
In this section we will go through a quick and efficient method of building timber frame walls, including:
- Marking the wall positions on the floor using a chalk line to create long straight lines
- Cutting wall plates: timbers representing the length of the walls
- Marking wall plates for door/window openings
- How to make a gauge for marking the position of common studs on the wall plates.
- Marking the wall plates for the location of common studs
- Where to join walls that are longer than the 6 meter length of timber available
- Stud locations at wall junctions