Bracing Exterior Walls
Cladding may be made of timber masonry fibre cement or metal.
Bracing exterior walls. Wall bracing provides racking resistance against horizontal lateral racking loads from wind and. Framing exterior walls is different from interior walls. I would build the wall flat square it then let in diagonal bracing to keep it square.
General practice is to consider these sheathing products and their attachments to the wood studs as adequate weak axis stud bracing indicating that the NDS slenderness ratios could be met without the need for solid wood blocking between studs. Fibre cement exterior cladding is low maintenance and complies with the National Construction Code C112 part 3712 as being deemed non-combustible cladding which eliminates the risk of having flammable cladding in your home and aids compliance in bushfire prone areas and where fire and acoustic walls are required. Brief steps to framing backyard storage shed walls.
Again there is an exception. The design has two load bearing walls running down the hall so I can use the partition walls for bracing. Braced wall lines as far as 50 feet apart are allowed if the total amount of braced wall panel area is increased to compensate for the greater distance between the braced wall lines.
Earthquakes and prevents the wall studs from distorting in the plane of the wall racking in. 25 amount of bracing required for a braced wall line Table 3a or 3b 32 braced wall line length. Wall bracing provides racking resistance against horizontal lateral racking loads from wind and earthquakes and prevents the wall studs from distorting in the plane of the wall racking in domino fashion thus preventing building collapse.
Both interior and exterior wood wall construction commonly includes layers of wood structural panels plywood or OSB andor gypsum wallboard. However this requirement can be placed anywhere on the bracing line. We typically recommend this if the wall is more than 2-12 to 3 out of plumb.
The purpose of the system is to provide bracing resistance for light timber framed buildings under wind and earthquake loading to meet the requirements of the New Zealand Building Code Section B1 Structure and B2 Durability. Squaring The Wall Before Sheating. Nailing The Wall Together.