Framing Interior Walls

Nailing the wall together.

Framing interior walls. Exterior walls provide strength and rigidness to a home so they need to be anchored down with anchor bolts and sheeted with plywood or o s b. I m demonstrating how to frame a wall in my basement but this technique applies t. To frame a wall you must choose the wall s location build the wall flat on the floor and then tilt it into place.

Learning how to frame a wall requires accuracy and attention to detail but the results are well worth the challenge. Laying out the wall studs windows and doors. The most common method of interior wall framing is to build them in situ in place on site as opposed to pre building them in a joinery shop and then re assembling them on site although some projects require the latter method.

So grab a helper gather your tools and get to work this weekend. Framing exterior walls is different from interior walls. Below we show you how to frame an interior wall with wood studs.

This is the method one uses if the wall is framed on the floor and tilted up into position. You plumb a wall by placing a perfectly straight straightedge from the top plate to the bottom plate. This straightedge is placed between wall studs so it only is touching the plates.

In part 1 of this 3 part series we ll learn how to frame a wall in a room. Most wall framing is done with 2x4 or 2x6 lumber but it may be possible to use 2x3 s to build a new non load bearing interior wall. Adding an interior wall can make a large unusable space more functional.

By code 2x3 s may be used for this purpose if the wall is no taller than 10 feet and the studs are spaced every 16 inches.