Hi,

I'm putting in a partition wall that will have a door in it. One side of the door is only 33" long so placing a stud at 32" on center will leave me with a 1/4" gap where the king(?) stud should be. Would it be better to add a stud at 30" so that I'll have two right next to each other, or move over and place the stud at 32 1/4" on center? It's not a load bearing wall, but I'm leaning toward the double studs at 30" rather than moving the stud over 1/4". What's the "right" way to do this?

Thanks,

Rob

 

I've read through your question and still don't know what you have. Pictures would help. http://www.doityourself.com/forum/el...your-post.html

If your door is only 33" LONG, what is long?What size door are you planning to install?

 

Sorry, I thought this was a relatively simple question. So forget that I ever mentioned a door and let's just say that I want to build a non-load bearing wall that is 33" long. Since placing a stud at 32" on center would leave me 1/4" short, is it better to:

A) add an additional stud so that there will be one starting at 30" and another at 31 1/2", which gets me 33" of wall, OR
B) place the stud at 32 1/4" on center, i.e starting at 31 1/2" instead of 31 1/4" as would be the normal 16" on center placement for the second stud?

I may never have done this before, but I'm pretty sure that there are no studs in a door, so I'm not sure what caused the confusion.

Rob

 

The confusing part is the 33" wall, and door. And how they are placed.

I think what you have is a 33 or so wall, then door opening, and then maybe another short wall after that??? Let's say 8' or whatever, it doesn't matter.

What I would do is place studs at 16" on center. If you want door rough opening at an exact location, and you feel a stud is not needed at that location (I mean maintain the 16"), go for it.
If there is a wall area on other side of door, try to resume your stud spacing on that side.
Hope this makes sense.
Measure from (let's say) left wall, 16" studs all the way across, eliminate one if you feel prudent.

 

Hi Brian,

Yes, you're correct. This was one of those cases where I had it in my head to measure 16" on center from the "right" side of the wall and this created the problem. But measuring 16" on center from the "left" side of the wall resolved the issue completely...funny how I occasionally get something in my head as "this is the way to do X..." and simply swapping things fixes the problem.

Thanks for your help,

Rob

 

It probably was standing there looking at the situation, but blind, I couldn't envision a wall 33" long with any stud spacing problems. I gather from the remaining posts, that your wall was actually longer than 33", and you wanted to fit a door in the opening and maintain stud spacing. What you did was good, swapping the measurements. Although it probably would not have mattered a lot since your wall covering wouldn't have noticed the 1/4" or so. Great that you got it solved.