Timeline for Is this gap in framing a mistake or normal, and is any remediation needed?
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| Jun 21 at 18:05 | comment | added | isherwood | It's a 30-second job to slap whatever 2x4 scrap you have in that corner. The wiring isn't the slightest concern. | |
| Jun 21 at 17:23 | comment | added | Huesmann | Hard to say, but there could be (pink foam strip) sill gasket beneath the bottom plate. | |
| Jun 21 at 16:56 | comment | added | cr0 | Ok, I'll add an additional stud for the left wall. It makes things a little complicated in adding a block to connect the walls, given some electrical is already run. I'm thinking the two walls don't need to directly connect, given on bottom and top their plates are secured to common relatively-immovable objects. | |
| Jun 21 at 16:50 | comment | added | isherwood | There should be a stud added. Or go with your plan of notching the drywall. | |
| Jun 21 at 16:49 | comment | added | cr0 | But in that case, what is securing the end of the left wall's drywall? Do I need to put an additional corner stud in, perpendicular to the end stud on the left wall and flush with its interior edge? | |
| Jun 21 at 16:47 | comment | added | isherwood |
There's no need to lap the drywall into the wall intersection as you seem to be thinking. They should lap one over the other at the corner and that's that. =:: RMDman was saying that by putting one sheet on first you essentially eliminate any gap for the next sheet. The span is so short, though, it just doesn't matter.
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| Jun 21 at 16:08 | comment | added | cr0 | #3 I can add in a block to connect the two studs as they are now, not moving them around. Based on RMDman's answer, I'm envisioning this block I put in will be flush with the right wall so that wall's drywall can go up against it smoothly, and the left wall's drywall will have a notch cut out to accomodate that block and any wiring making the curve between walls. Does that sound right to you? | |
| Jun 21 at 16:07 | comment | added | cr0 | #2 you are right. Doorways and the studs on the left wall (photo 1) are all plumb in both directions, along with a few other random studs I checked. The only stud not plumb is the end stud on the right wall - it is connected maybe an inch off on top. Seems negligible to me, as long as it's not creating other problems. Again this is in a tricky area around stairs, so that might explain this one stud. | |
| Jun 21 at 16:05 | comment | added | cr0 | Thanks for flagging these issues, just the kind of input I was hoping to get. For #1, I had the same concern and voiced it at the time (or a request for tar paper underneath), they insisted and talked me out of it saying it is effectively an interior wall, not an exterior one and thus doesn't need PT. I even pulled up code, but the interpreted it as referring to exterior concrete. Since they're well rated for decades in the area, I accepted their way of doing it. Open to suggestions but doesn't seem like much of a next step on this front other than keep access to monitor bottom plate condition | |
| Jun 21 at 15:56 | history | edited | isherwood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 21 at 15:50 | history | answered | isherwood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |