With traditional framing techniques, your home’s exterior walls are built with short distances between studs and double or triple headers. The result is a wall composition of about 25% lumber. lay You're probably familiar with traditional framing, where you expect studs within your walls to be 16" apart (from stud center to center). While that traditional framing method can do a lot for the structure of your home, every single one of those stud boards is a 1. 5" wide space (that runs the entire height of your home) that you cannot insulate. The r-value/inch of a stud is 1.

What is Advanced Framing?

This light-frame construction method is the most used in wood-framed buildings. In this method, a ground floor platform is created. Walls are assembled flat and are tilted vertically. Second storeys can be built the same way, and a roof is built on top. As wood frames are short and light in weight, they do not need heavy machinery to set up. Therefore, this method of wood framing is easier to handle and highly favored. There is another type of platform framing, called the advanced framing, that uses fewer studs. built With efficient implementation, this method can cut on material and labor costs.

Designing on two-foot modules to make the best use of common sheet sizes and reduce waste and labor. Spacing wall studs up to 24 inches on center. Spacing floor joists and roof rafters up to 24 inches on center. Using two-stud corner framing and inexpensive drywall clips or scrap lumber for drywall backing instead of studs. Eliminating headers in non-load-bearing walls. Using in-line framing in which floor, wall, and roof framing members are vertically in line with one another and loads are transferred directly downward. Using single lumber headers and top plates when appropriate. This approach results in a structurally sound home with lower material and labor costs than a conventionally framed house.