Exam 18: Laying Out Walls and Partitions

The Lake House includes an angled wall. The length of such walls cannot be accurately found, even with trigonometry.

It is important to consider the true size of the framing material when working with _________.

Access to the loft in the Lake House is by ____.

Before looking for specific details on floor plans, it may help to mentally walk through the house.

Commercial buildings may require a thicker wall, where the electrical service panel is flush mounted and the panel box is deeper than the standard 3 1/2-inch wall.

The accompanying figure depicts the Lake House ____.

As each wall is laid out, the plates are cut to length, and the ____ all openings and intersecting walls are marked.

____ walls are usually dimensioned to the face of the studs or the face of the sheathing.

The garage is attached to the Lake House only by the wood deck and the ____.

The accompanying figure shows the Lake House ____.

The purpose of the utility room beyond the bathroom is to ____.

The accompanying figure depicts the Lake House ____.

The thicker wall in a bathroom is called a(n) ____ wall.

When walls are dimensioned to their centerlines, ____ of the wall thickness must be subtracted to find the face of the studs.

Interior walls may be dimensioned either to the face of the studs or to their ____.

Overall dimensions and major wall locations are given ____.

Although most interior partitions are 3 1/2 inches thick, the wall behind the water closet and lavatory is ____ inches thick.

Frame walls are dimensioned in one of ____ ways.

Before the deck (framing and subfloor or concrete slab) has been completed, the framing carpenter has already laid out the location of walls and partitions.

Of all the sheets in a set of construction drawings, the floor plans often contain the most information.