Well a long and busy day putting up studwork framing on the long east wall and the small pieces on the west wall. All this is done using some horrible normal softwood. Builder Centre (or Wolsey) supplied this at a good price and on schedule (OK, they were short on 60m of the 3m stock) and we just cut it up and stuck it in. Essentially we cut the verticals and then cut nogging pieces to go top and bottom such that the centres of the studs are 600mm apart (for the Fermacell wall cladding that is due to go on the inside). Note that the first pair of noggings have to be half the width of the stud narrower because the first sheet has to butt up to the outside of the stud fixed to the vertical posts. The only bit of complex studding was in the northern bays where we triangulated them to provide north-south stiffness whilst we wait for the internal cladding to be added. All is fixed in with 80mm screws with Torx heads which are so much better than philips or posidriv heads.
