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Check and Square the Wall

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Before lifting your wall section, ensure it is plumb and square. If working on the ground, you can check the squareness by measuring corner to opposite corner diagonally. The measurements should be identical. If they are not, adjust the wall until the diagonal measurements match.

Goal: Ensure the framed wall section is plumb and square before lifting

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  • Tape Measure — Measuring diagonals to check for squareness

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studs. When nailing top plates, you want to nail above studs. Overlap corners lock in, and gets three nails. Before you install any sheathing standing up, you want to be sure that your structure is plumb. And if you do it on the ground, you can check corner to corner to square your walls before you lift them. To figure your stud length, you'll take your finish height and subtract 3 and 3/8. So, if you want 8-ft ceilings, do 96 - 3 and 3/8 and get 92 and 5/8. This gives

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