Browse Forums Building A New House Re: House frame can anyone explain plz 2Aug 09, 2007 10:42 pm I believe you are either referring to the eave overhangs, with some being 450mm and some being 600mm. Or alternatively you could be referring to the spacing between the vertical lengths of timber in the wall. Re: House frame can anyone explain plz 5Aug 13, 2007 5:52 pm Azar Hi I'm referring to the spacing between the vertical lengths of timber in the wall. do you much about that? Our builder uses 450mm ones and I have visited a few house in construction and measured the spacing. I think strength wise it shouldn't make much difference as the timer won't need to handle any load. I guess it does make you feel better as there are more timber behind each wall. Cost wise it would be slightly higher for the builder. Also, if you need to hang anything on the wall, the chance of nailing it on the timber would be higher... Re: House frame can anyone explain plz 6Aug 13, 2007 5:55 pm Also, if you look at this post on my blog:
http://building-our-first-house.blogspot.com/2007/07/jargon001-what-is-it.html there are some information about the terminologies used. As shown in image below, I think you are talking about the distance between 2 "common stud" http://bp1.blogger.com/_Iz9-J2P8-bw/RpG ... frames.JPG Thanks. I wish there was a youtube video explaining this concept. 10 27191 This is 100% true. You can not hang anything on steel frames. very frustrating 8 8052 Hi, We have a single story MacDonald Jones house, on a waffle pod slab with steel frame. Are we able to build a second story extension? Other info is we are 900mm from… 0 8505 |