Love the great detail. Its nice you openly share these potential problems and solutions to help move the building industry forward. The better we are informed, the better the houses will be.
I can't help but see it all the time on T-Studs is the blowout for the dowel rods. Isn't there a way they could manufacture them without the constant blowout? Usually when drilling a hole in wood someone would use a sacrificial piece of wood to prevent that. I imagine they have a machine that has many drills going at the same time at the same angle. So having a jib piece with the holes for the drill bits would work. I get that it has little impact on the strength of the stud, but when trying to convince a customer to spend the extra money on T-Studs compared to traditional studs, it would help a lot.
Would making the second story windows a little wider and adding Zip sides like the lower story windows have further reduced the thermal bridging enough to bother doing?
T- stud shows in there ads that they have t-studs with the same face width on both sides. Instead of having one side 1 1/2" wide on one side and 2 1/2" on the other making cutting difficult, won't t-stud sell you a stud with the same face width on both sides to make it easier?
Great product!
I created a Tstud 49” header with Simpson framing hardware on a mock-up wall. Fun prototype
Love the great detail. Its nice you openly share these potential problems and solutions to help move the building industry forward. The better we are informed, the better the houses will be.
I can't help but see it all the time on T-Studs is the blowout for the dowel rods. Isn't there a way they could manufacture them without the constant blowout? Usually when drilling a hole in wood someone would use a sacrificial piece of wood to prevent that. I imagine they have a machine that has many drills going at the same time at the same angle. So having a jib piece with the holes for the drill bits would work. I get that it has little impact on the strength of the stud, but when trying to convince a customer to spend the extra money on T-Studs compared to traditional studs, it would help a lot.
I had them use the method you used upstairs so my framers would have an easier time dealing with them
Would making the second story windows a little wider and adding Zip sides like the lower story windows have further reduced the thermal bridging enough to bother doing?
Thank you Jake!!
[Just curious… did you calculate what the ‘energy ding’ actually was?] ⚡️✉️
Jake … could you compare and contrast Andersen Series 100 vs 400 for cost and energy efficiency.
T- stud shows in there ads that they have t-studs with the same face width on both sides. Instead of having one side 1 1/2" wide on one side
and 2 1/2" on the other making cutting difficult, won't t-stud sell you a stud with the same face width on both sides to make it easier?
Seems like a lot of complexity for not much extra benefit
Honestly, I don't see the point...extra effort for ...?