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Framing the walls of your
country-ranch-house-plan
comes after framing basics,
floor joists, and
sheathing the walls,
but before roof trusses
As your country-ranch-house-plan starts getting walls, you'll begin to realize the dream you've been having.
Looking inside the front door you can see some of the interior walls being built.. If the garage is attached, the garage has to have a fire wall between it and the main house. The door to the house from the garage has to be a fire door also.
The pix shows the wall to the garage on the right. It is one of the firewalls.
This picture shows both of the firewalls. The doorway on the left is the firewall door, and the wall to the right is the 2nd firewall. You can see the garage pad in front,
They usually use 2x4's on firewalls, and then the walls are insulated, well, and have a special fire break wallboard on them. This is to give time for the fire department to get there in case a fire starts in the garage. Another place to be careful about is to make sure that the firebreak wall goes all the way to the rafters, not just to ceiling heigth. In the event of fire, many fires spread through the attic, because of no firebreak between apartments in the attic. Don't forget to look at your firebreak walls, clear to the rafters, in between the garage to the house.
MORE
.....on framing basics
....on floor joists
.....Sheathing the walls
SEE
....Building your FREE Home
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