Browse Forums Windows & Doors 1 Dec 16, 2013 8:48 pm Hi everyone, Hope someone can provide some expert advice here! I'm finalising the detailed working drawings for a new house build - brick veneer - and want to use all standard window sizes to reduce costs. However, I want to also make the build as easy as possible for the brick layers, so want the window openings to be in full or half metric bricks. What happens if full or half brick dimensions are not possible? What do brickies/window carpenters do in this situation? Also, is there a recommended way of placing windows relative to prefabricated stud framing patterns of 450mm ext stud centres to make it easy for the window carpenters? A lot of the standard windows look to have weird stud opening widths, such as 620, 877, 1049mm. Is there a method to this madness? I guess it's a trade off between metric brick, and standard framing practice. Should the framing plan specify a modified prefab stud spacing for the stud openings of the windows? Or does the window carpenter have to come in and modify the prefab studs to accommodate the windows? Thanks to everyone for their help and advice! Thanks David Re: Locating Std windows in metric brick walls & prefab fram 2Dec 17, 2013 9:42 am In the floorplan dimensioning you put in running dimensions showing the brick panels and the window openings. The prefab manuf. will make the stud openings to suit allowing for clearance either side of the opening. If, in places you can't work bricks then they will be cut onsite. Peter Clarkson - AusDesign Australia www.ausdesign.com.au This information is intended to provide general information only. It does not purport to be a comprehensive advice. That sucks! Hope it all works out. Good to move away from steel anyway for all your reasons, but it's also thermally poor. 16 17889 If this is a custom build then I would expect the builder to set out the door frame closer to the wall to avoid the gap between architrave and the wall and or specify… 9 8324 |