Wall Types

[FRED JOHNSON]

I started drawing a floor plan last night using the 2 x 6/brick veneer wall type and noticed something I did not see before: There appears to be no provision for the sheathing on the exterior face of the studs (brick veneer side). Is this an oversight or intentional? Where I come from sheathing would be applied to the studs before the veneer. Do I need to manually update this and similar standard wall types:

VWA 1.01, OS 9.3.

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[Robert Anderson]

You could add the exterior sheathing layer if you wanted to. It's not been drawn in any office I've worked in (in plan, anyway.) The five "cavity" layers of your wall could be:

1-Exterior masonry veneer;2-Air space3-Exterior sheathing4-Wood framing5-Interior sheathing

Up to you.

[FRED JOHNSON]

Robert,

I would not draw the interior finish at 1/4" or smaller plan drawings either. For the sake of industry/construction correctness I would think that both or neither should be deplected in the standard wall types... dimensioning to face of stud at requires a zoom so at not to hit the sheetrock. This is no big deal but I really would omit the interior rock.

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