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Hi! This is John on behalf of Expert Village. In this video clip, I will be showing you
some basic framing tips. If you take a look at your tape measure, you will notice that
the number 16 is highlighted. This is going to tell us that a stud is going to be put
on every 16 inches. Now if you look at our tape measure, we are on 42 inches. This one
is highlighted in the same way that the 16 was. This is going to help you to be able
to lay out your studs. When laying out a wall, you are going to want there to be a stud on
the end of each wall and then every 16 inches, there is going to be another stud. When it
comes to electrical boxes and phone junction boxes, we are going to want a stud on each
side of it so that we can frame it in so that we still have access to it once we are finished.
Another tip for framing; if your piece does not reach the full distance, you can go ahead
and butt the two pieces up together and add a little piece on top of it to help hold both
those pieces together.