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Hi, I'm Tim Carter from AskTheBuilder.com. I'm here at a new home construction site in New Hampshire, and I want to show you something. See all these walls that have been built? Well, you know what? They were not built on site
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You know, typically, that's what we call stick framing, where the lumber company brings a big pile of lumber, actually just like this
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You know, two by fours, all different types of lumber. And the carpenters on the job site, they go ahead and measure, cut, and bang it all together
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Well, guess what? All of the walls for this house were built at a factory and brought here on a flatbed truck
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Look at this. Come here. So here's a wall section. Come on and get a little closer. I want to show you something here
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So look at this. This is a wall that was built in a factory. It's going to be an interior wall because it doesn't have any sheathing on either side of it
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But the point is it been accurately measured down to the 16th of an inch And when the carpenters go and set this wall panel in it even already has the double top plate on and you can tell here where it going to overlap another wall where it turns a corner
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that's how sophisticated these pre-engineered pre-built pre-fabricated walls are that are built in a factory and you know what it doesn't really cost anymore and it can make things go up
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on the job site much faster. Believe it or not, just a week ago, no walls were up
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There's no carpentry crew at all that could have built these walls this fast in this kind of weather
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So you can really compress the construction schedule when you use prefab walls like this
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I'm Tim Carter for askthebuilder.com. If you want to discover more home improvement tips, go to askthebuilder.com
