Building an Interior Wall
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When you are renovating your home and changing any configuration, at some point you may need to build a new interior wall. The construction of building a wall is fairly simple. In this post, we’re going to break it down with the basics and show you how to build a wall with 2×4 studs.
Here’s a picture labeling the interior wall lingo.
First thing to do is to do is to figure our where the wall is going, what it will attach to, and what is going in or on the wall.
Now that we’ve covered some of the basics you are finally ready to tackle on getting that interior wall planned out on paper.
Once the subfloor is exposed, you can put down chalk lines on the floors for your base plate.
Go back to your top and base plates and make a mark 3/4″ on either side of each 16″ mark.
You can then start building your interior wall frame on the ground.
Be sure that you are keeping things level and square as you build. Keep the studs flush with the plates when you are nailing them.
Once your wall is put together, you can put it into place. Line up the base plate with the chalk line you made earlier and lift the wall frame upright.
Once your wall frame is upright and the base plate is lined up perfectly on that chalk line, you can begin to nail it in.
The last steps after you get the framing up is to hang the drywall sheets, mud and tape the joints and texture walls.
Viola! You just put up a wall.
You can learn lots more about building an interior wall by checking out this full blog post.
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