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Envelope #20: How to quickly determine the allowable height for interior, non-bearing, metal stud partition?
Andy Lin
September 29, 2022
Happy Thursday! Welcome to Back of the Envelope. This is email #20! My goal is to get to at least #50, then decide if I should continue. For now, let’s talk about some metal studs!
Here is a scenario that happened recently.
A client called up and asked:
“Hey Andy, so we have a 16’ interior non-bearing partition. Studs are 3-5/8” x 20 ga @ 16”o.c. with gypboard on both sides. It doesn’t meet the STC rating (sound transmission class), so we need to increase the spacing to 24”o.c. How can we make that happen?”
Hmm good question.
Let’s dissect that and come up with a solution in 2 minutes and 15 seconds!