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The last bastion of the pickup truck framer is also
the last part of the component equation to succumb
to the inevitability of design and prefabrication.
Seemingly the easiest part of the framing process to
install and/or butcher and repair, the wall panel
has many more variables to reckon with than span,
pitch, and heel height! Stud grades, size, and
spacing depth, wall height and depth, plate grades
and thickness, Rough opening sizes, plate laps,
corner and tee/partition configurations, sheathing
types and grades, Stud arrangement, e.g. staggered,
straight, single and double stud configurations,
quantity of top or bottom plates, 2nd top plate ship
loose or field apply? and the list goes on... |