Planning to build a storage shed on an open piling foundation. The support beam is attached to the pilings, while the sill plate will be placed on top. If I build a wall in several sections meant to be joined together, what should I do with the sill plate? Should the sill plate be placed on the support beam first, and the wall section gets an extra sill plate placed on top? Or do you skip the sill plate on the support beam and let each wall section have its own sill plate? How do you most appropriately join the sill plates? Half-and-half?
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Wall studs 45x120, 2200 high. Yes, it's only the long walls that I was thinking of dividing in that case. Just can't figure out what to do with the sill then.
The joints between the sections? Yes, of course. I mean more if the sill itself needs to be jointed in a special way. In the corners, you usually join them half-and-half, I was thinking more about joints in the middle of the side. On the sill that sits against the floor joists/carrier beam, it can still be joined half-and-half. If you're building sections, then the sill joint ends up... in the section joint... but I suppose that's not a problem, right?
By the way, do you make the sides of the sections with the same stud dimensions as the other wall studs, in my case 45x120? That would mean you have double studs in the section joint, is that correct?
