House Exterior Walls Thickness With Vinyl Siding And 2x4 Studs

The house was completed in july of 2007.

House exterior walls thickness with vinyl siding and 2x4 studs.

The international residential code specifies 3 8 inch plywood for sheathing walls with a standard stud spacing of 16 inches if the siding is nailed to the studs through the sheathing. This winter the home owner noticed that all of the walls along the exterior of the house were bowing out ward. Upon further inspection every exterior wall is about 3 8 to 1 2 inch bowed outward. 2 should these wall have all real world dimensions applied to the materials that are making them up.

2 by 6 studs are typically used in walls that contain plumbing making those walls 6 5 inches. Vinyl siding over studs no sheathing it would be a judgment call but if i saw no wind bracing or shear panels on the corners i d be making a call. Exterior sheathing is used to help strengthen the walls of a new home. Half of the corners are cracking and cracks are.

The typical interior wall thickness in newer construction using 2 by 4 studs and half inch drywall is 4 5 inches. For example wall sheathing performs the obvious job of providing a surface to fasten siding materials to but it also works to hold numerous studs together to give the home structural. Exterior wall sheathing is either structural or non structural. Structural exterior wall sheathing ties framing studs together making the walls resistant to twisting and bending.

Unlike ove where the premise is primarily on reducing the amount of studs or wood used in a wall the basic premise behind optimized framing techniques is taking the best framing techniques that fit the house you are building utilizing them to not only save resources but to also have a strong durable structure that uses a minimal amount of connectors required by other techniques. Add another 1 2 inch for the boxing and 3 4 inch for standard lap siding. The nominal dimension of 2 by 4 inches refers to the size of green rough sawn studs. Exterior wall thickness varies depending on the exterior finish siding and brick facing.

2 3 4 with tile. When used in home construction exterior wall sheathing is very multi functional. Ex interior finish to the exterior finish of a 2x6 exterior wall with vinyl siding sheetrock 1 2 vapor barrier very thin so i don t even apply a thickness 2x6 stud 5 1 2 sheathing 1 2 membrane agian no thickness rigid. The interior walls are all plum.

It s not my personality to watch someone destroy the structural integrity of a building and keep my mouth shut. Add the 5 1 4 inch thickness of the wall to the 12 inches. With a 2x4 stud wall 4 1 4 from brick to tile face and spray in hi density polyisocyanurate foam toxic you still don t exceed r 16 for the total wall thickness. Adjust wall thickness measurements accordingly for thicker walls.

The flat framed wall i described in my first post is 2 1 2 without tile.