“Crowning” is when you take a piece of lumber and you sight it. “Sighting” lumber is when you pick up the piece of lumber and eye it (from one corner down the length of it) to see if it has a curve to it. A piece of lumber can be bowed, crooked, kinked, cupped, and twisted. At BRC we always crown all material installed into the structures we build. Crowning studs is important, because it makes for flatter finished walls. We always crown the studs out, which gives us results like this:
The “plumb line” represents what a flat wall looks like. The drywall board goes onto the wall and follows the curve of the wall (concave).
A crowned out wall (which is concaved, as shown above) allows the drywallers to place their mud in the center of the wall in order to fill in the space between the plumb line and the drywall board. This consolidates the majority of the mudding to one location. When mudding a wall, you want a flat surface and to cover the joint made by the drywall board.
If the walls are not crowned, the drywall board on the wall will be wavy (as shown below). This will make it more likely for screw pops.
When building a home, the smallest details can make the biggest difference. A general contractor takes on quality control and helps prevent these headaches later on. Our job is to explain to the crews why some of these little details can make all the difference in the quality of the finish of the product. Everything one trade does affects the next trade coming after them, and so on. BRC is onsite to communicate with each trade, which allows for all trades to have a fighting chance to produce the best quality home for you.
So what does “crowning studs” mean? It means quality control – and quality control starts with communication. At Buck Robertson Contracting, we do contracting with communication! If you would like your house built with communication, visit our contact page today by clicking the link below:
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