Question

Calculate the length of the wall studs that would need to be cut based on the respective finish floor material & finish ceiling materials listed below. list the answer in feet, inches & fraction of an inch or inches & fraction of a inch.

House #5; the finish floor to ceiling height is 10'-9 7/8" ; the finish floor has 1 1/4" thick carpet, the finish ceiling has 5/8" type "X" Fire rated sheet rock with 5/8" thick engineered, knotty maple hardwood applied to it.

Stud length:____________________________

Answer 1

Solution as follows:

Wall Studs are placed from top of a floor to the top of next floor. To calculate the wall stud length we need to calculate this height.

Floor to floor height can be calculated by adding floor finish thickness and ceiling thickness to the clear height (i.e. finish floor to ceiling bottom height).

Given data,

Hence,

Hence the length of wall stud would be .

Note –

• ‘ Symbol represents feet and “ symbol represent inches.
• 1 foot = 12 inch