How should the sill and wall plate be spliced (if they are not long enough and need to be spliced)?
Is it necessary to always use nail plates, and splice between two bays and not splice horizontal and vertical wall plates in the same bay?
Is it necessary to always use nail plates, and splice between two bays and not splice horizontal and vertical wall plates in the same bay?
Well, you can probably do it in various ways.
Personally, I haven't joined a sill plate in any particularly advanced way at all.
I think I actually just placed them next to each other and then fastened them to the concrete slab. But maybe I also nailed a small board (like 120x22) with some 65 mm nails (or screws) pbs. (If I could be bothered, I could search a bit for pictures
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And a small board doesn't do any harm and keeps things a bit in check until it's fully built. So feel free to take a piece of 22mm plank and nail with about 5 65mm nails on each side.
The top plate, however, needs to be fixed a bit until the rafters, wall cladding, and other stabilizing elements are in place.
A nail plate that can be 400mm long with anchor nails/anchor screws on top and as long a board that fits underneath, nailed with sparsely spread nails along the entire length, I think would be great.
Placing the joints in different sections isn't necessarily crucial.
If it's going to be built on the ground in different sections to be erected separately, it might be more complicated to try and join in different sections.
However, if it's going to be joined together on the ground, it might possibly be a slight advantage to join in different sections so the wall is a bit more stable right when you raise the wall section.
That's what I think, anyway.
Personally, I haven't joined a sill plate in any particularly advanced way at all.
I think I actually just placed them next to each other and then fastened them to the concrete slab. But maybe I also nailed a small board (like 120x22) with some 65 mm nails (or screws) pbs. (If I could be bothered, I could search a bit for pictures
)And a small board doesn't do any harm and keeps things a bit in check until it's fully built. So feel free to take a piece of 22mm plank and nail with about 5 65mm nails on each side.
The top plate, however, needs to be fixed a bit until the rafters, wall cladding, and other stabilizing elements are in place.
A nail plate that can be 400mm long with anchor nails/anchor screws on top and as long a board that fits underneath, nailed with sparsely spread nails along the entire length, I think would be great.
Placing the joints in different sections isn't necessarily crucial.
If it's going to be built on the ground in different sections to be erected separately, it might be more complicated to try and join in different sections.
However, if it's going to be joined together on the ground, it might possibly be a slight advantage to join in different sections so the wall is a bit more stable right when you raise the wall section.
That's what I think, anyway.
The sill is placed just tightly together and attached to the substrate, the wall plate is usually made of double 45x120 or wider, depending on the thickness of the framework, and the joints are offset and the corners are thus half-lapped.
Exactly, that's probably how I did it on the house.cecar33 said:
With horizontal 45x195 as hammarband and vertical 45x170 as the beam underneath, which I probably joined slightly offset from each other. I'll see if I can find a picture tonight.In the garage, I only have one rule, standing as both a beam and hammarband.