Temporary Support Wall

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Temporary support wall.

Temporary wall partitions are built on a regular basis by many remodeling contractors. This is a durable extremely accurate level that will last a lifetime. Build a temporary wall if you need to divide a shared kids room or transform a corner alcove into a home office then a temporary wall may be just the ticket. As i understand to add a temporary support wall for typical load bearing wall where joist are perpendicular to the wall one would build temporary supports parallel to the wall and on both sides.

Find studs to determine the direction the joists run through the ceiling use an electronic stud finder or drill a series of locator holes. The mallforms saves you thousands starting only after the second use. However this wall on one side kitchen the joists are parallel to this wall while on the other side is an open ceiling. There are different ways to provide support to load bearing walls but if the joists above are perpendicular to the wall the easiest option is to build a temporary brace wall.

In this article author and remodeling contractor john ross explains how to build a temporary wall brace. Temporary support for an exterior wall the temporary support will hold the wall up until you install the header.