In New England many contractors strap out the ceilings for drywall. I now live in New York and am working for a Contractor who has never heard of such a thing. I am looking for more reasons for him to consider using strapping on the ceilings . Any suggestions.
Strapping the ceiling.
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In New England many contractors strap out the ceilings for drywall. I now live in New York and am working for a Contractor who has never heard of such a thing. I am looking for more reasons for him to consider using strapping on the ceilings . Any suggestions.
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Hello.... welcome... showing my lack of knowledge on something here.. but what is strapping the ceiling for drywall? Never heard of that
Strapping The Ceiling.
We run 1x3's 16" OC perpendicular to the ceiling joists to help flatten the ceiling before hanging the drywall.
We run 1x3's 16" OC perpendicular to the ceiling joists to help flatten the ceiling before hanging the drywall.
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Ahh... Yeah, I have seen that a couple of times in my years. Never been a fan of it either though. Had one customer who wanted the walls done that way as well years ago.. seems like a waste of time and money to me, but good luck in selling it to your customer :thumbsup:
I know the strapping discussion has been tossed around here before too, probably find more opinions with searching.
Electricians use the space for running cables.
Only reason to put on walls would be for a wainscoting application or similar wall finish. Depending on the details though , we would run blocking flush with studs, not on the face of them.
Strapping The Ceiling.
Yep, in the new house we built last fall we strapped the second floor ceiling because it was trusses. We didn't strap the first floor ceiling though, because they were i-joists.
Yep, in the new house we built last fall we strapped the second floor ceiling because it was trusses. We didn't strap the first floor ceiling though, because they were i-joists.
I wish all my jobs were done this way .
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Strapping the walls is foolish. Around here its part of the frame, no question. If you did not strap the ceiling people would think you are a cheap hack.
Its the ultimate example of regional practices.
Strap a 2X4 wall with 2X3 or 2X4 (actually, it's whalers), and you get 5" with little thermal bridging - better than a straight 2X6 wall for insulating.
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Never strap the floor joists
I can tell you from personal experience when a fire gets in the floor joist with strapping it has a clear run to the other end of the structure
I can tell you from personal experience when a fire gets in the floor joist with strapping it has a clear run to the other end of the structure
Metal in coild country? I don't think it will catch on.
Someone said thermal bridging for the walls, I've only seen this in 2x material but that is why. I recently saw a buildig go up with manufactured truss walls- they were blocked out to what appeared to be lots of wall insulation and thermal bridging. Kinda cool.
For ceilings- Studs were 93" and 92-5/8" when I first started building. 93" allowed for 3/4 (1" x 3") for the ceilings that were typically 24" O.C. and with the weight of insulation 1/2" drywall only spanned 16" starpping to strapping.
Someone said thermal bridging for the walls, I've only seen this in 2x material but that is why. I recently saw a buildig go up with manufactured truss walls- they were blocked out to what appeared to be lots of wall insulation and thermal bridging. Kinda cool.
For ceilings- Studs were 93" and 92-5/8" when I first started building. 93" allowed for 3/4 (1" x 3") for the ceilings that were typically 24" O.C. and with the weight of insulation 1/2" drywall only spanned 16" starpping to strapping.
Almost the same thing with ceilings. Fiberglass slows it down some, and adds sound deadening. Open a strapped ceiling in a really old building, and you can feel a pretty good breeze.
More often than not we apply 3/4 foil faced rigid to the inside of the studs Tape the seams, foam around the boxes and its a vb.
The only metal framing we use are high hats on chimneys. In this region residential work is almost always wood. Every now and then we hit up the local mills for material to be used in our yard. Now that stock is green.
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