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Cold-Formed Steel Header and Cripple Stud Framing Detail

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Cold-formed Steel Timber / Wood Metal (misc.)

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Cold-formed steel header and cripple stud framing configurations for wall openings of varying spans with a maximum ten-foot wall height above the header. For openings of four feet six inches or less, the assembly utilizes sixteen gauge metal cripple studs spaced at sixteen inches on center with a minimum three-and-five-eighths-inch depth, fastened with number eight sheet metal screws at sixteen inches on center and at each cripple stud to a matching sixteen gauge runner track, above a single sixteen gauge stud header. For larger openings between four feet six inches and eighteen feet, the cripple stud spacing reduces to twelve inches on center, and the header incorporates either two three-and-five-eighths-inch by sixteen gauge minimum metal studs for spans under ten feet eight inches, or two eight-inch by sixteen gauge minimum metal studs for spans up to eighteen feet.

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