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Hi, I'm Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com and I want to show you the way houses should
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be framed. It's called stacked framing. Look at this. Now, way up there, it doesn't look
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like this in the video, but those are the roof rafters. Now notice how those long roof
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they stack right on top of the wall studs. They're sitting directly on top of it. And you follow the
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wall studs down. And look at this. See these nails right here? Well, you know what those are for
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That's because underneath here, that's the floor joist. So, this wall stud right here
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is stacked directly on top of the floor joist below it. Well it gets even better Go down here are the top plates and look what right underneath the floor joist It the next wall stud The point is this is you want to make the loads all the way from the roof
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all the way down through the structure, stack on top of one another until they get down to the
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foundation. That's the proper way to do framing. You don't want the floor joist of the roof rafters
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offset off of the wall studs for all kinds of reasons. It makes the job tougher on the
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plumbers, the heating people, and structurally it's just a better idea to stack all of the
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framing. I'm Tim Carter for AskTheBuilder.com. If you want to discover more home improvement
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