1 x 4 Let In Brace

Whenever you run into a framed wall with a 1 x 4 let in brace, there's a good chance that the home was built before the 1970s. These braces are cut into the wall, to provide additional strength for the home.

Most building and safety departments today don't allow framing contractors to cut let in braces into any walls.

Check with your local building department, architect and engineer, before attempting to cut let in braces into any walls. If the building department approves these types of wall braces, your engineer might not.

You shouldn't ever cut a let in brace into a structural shear wall or load bearing wall.

Common Causes for Structural Home Framing Failure -
If you're starting to have problems with your home like large cracks in the walls, either on the inside or the outside, there's a good chance that you have some sort of structural home framing failure. This could be caused by a few different things, so let's take a look at all three this of them.

Wood Framing and Building Hardware Tips - If you're framing a house today, there's a good chance that it has more hardware in the home today than five years ago. It's starting to get a little overkill and I don't really know how much more hardware one of these wood framed houses can actually take.

What Causes Cracks In Your Roof Framing? - There are a few different things that could cause cracks in your roof framing rafters and other structural components that are used while building your roof. Some of these cracks are actually in the lumber and no one ever did anything about them, while building the roof.

Roof Framing Secrets - Plan, Measure Then Build - When I first started working in construction, I was 16 years old and my first job was building stairs with my father. Within a few years I got to help my dad build some extremely difficult custom home roofs. These roofs required about five days for two men to cut and assemble.

5 Simple Rules for Beginner House Framing - If you haven't ever built a house before and you don't have any experience building a house, I would like to share five simple rules for beginner house framing with you. These five simple rules aren't going to solve all of your problems, but they're going to provide you with a step in the right direction.