stud spacing help please

[ChickenCanoe]

I hate a flat roof, they hold water. I recently bought this place, it has a 12 year old garage/shed with a flat roof that needs to be replaced. If he had a professional build it, maybe, but he built it himself. Water standing on a roof either rots, rusts, or leaks through. I'd want a roof sloped enough for water to run off as a minimum. In snow country the snow load can get really heavy.

It isn't perfectly flat. It is built like most 100-200 year old brick houses in St. Louis. The elevation grade is about 3' in a 50' run.
It does require pretty large dimension guttering. My roof is 1000 sq. ft. that all flows into a 20' stick of gutter. Extremely heavy rains can be overwhelming.

 

[DobieLover]

All load bearing walls require a max spacing of 16" o.c.
For ease of construction and proper support, i would hold the standard.
Roof decking supports may be spaced up to 24" depending on thickness of decking (osb or plywood). The decking will be printed with max spacing allowed. Northern climate with heavy snows should again be 16" o.c.

Eehh, not true.
I built my mudroom addition with 24" OC. Studs are surprisingly strong. My shed now coop is 24" OC. As long as the rafters sit over the studs, it's just fine. And you also don't need a double top plate. Take a look at Advanced Framing Technique.

 

[Mtnboomer]

Eehh, not true.
I built my mudroom addition with 24" OC. Studs are surprisingly strong. My shed now coop is 24" OC. As long as the rafters sit over the studs, it's just fine. And you also don't need a double top plate. Take a look at Advanced Framing Technique.

2x4 stud grade lumber is rated for 24" spacing for attic support or single story construction only and that is the maximum spacing allowed. This varies by local code pending different loading conditions. So a northern climate with heavy snows expected, i would personally choose a 16" oc spacing which is a standard for structural integrity when using 2x4 construction for load bearing walls.
You can choose to build to the max if you like, but 20yrs experience compels me to recommend 16 oc for any load bearing condition.

 

[DobieLover]

2x4 stud grade lumber is rated for 24" spacing for attic support or single story construction only and that is the maximum spacing allowed. This varies by local code pending different loading conditions. So a northern climate with heavy snows expected, i would personally choose a 16" oc spacing which is a standard for structural integrity when using 2x4 construction for load bearing walls.
You can choose to build to the max if you like, but 20yrs experience compels me to recommend 16 oc for any load bearing condition.

And yet my code enforcer passed my mud room addition without batting an eye.
And we are talking about a coop construction. 24" OC spacing is fine.

 

[pintail_drake2004]

I built my coop in my barn over winter and moved it outside when the weather permitted. I disassembled the walls, loaded them on a trailer and hauled them to the coop site 100yds away. We then sat them on the concrete, bolted them down and checked for square. We use to do this with walls of homes when I worked construction during winter and the rainy months. It really helps having a place to build out of the elements, otherwise we would have a lot of down time.

 

[ColoradoPip]

So a northern climate with heavy snows expected, i would personally choose a 16" oc spacing which is a standard for structural integrity when using 2x4 construction for load bearing walls.

This is why I went with 16o.c. for my coop. I believe dobielover but just felt more comfortable doing 16, and for a 13x7 coop it only cost me an extra couple of studs for that piece of mind.

Many sheds are 20-24 and do just fine.

 

[Mtnboomer]

I built my coop in my barn over winter and moved it outside when the weather permitted. I disassembled the walls, loaded them on a trailer and hauled them to the coop site 100yds away. We then sat them on the concrete, bolted them down and checked for square. We use to do this with walls of homes when I worked construction during winter and the rainy months. It really helps having a place to build out of the elements, otherwise we would have a lot of down time.

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20 yrs ago i worked on an assembly line building prefab homes. Very elaborate 3 story homes were all built in the factory and assembled on site. The pieces were shipped north to PA, NJ, and as far south as NC It was pretty cool to watch $600k homes being built off a truck.
When they erected the homes, they would build the roof first. Then raise it to sit on top of each story as it was completed to keep the weather off as much as possible. Amazing to watch an entire roof lifted off by crane and then replaced each night.

 

[lumpster1961]

thank ya'll for your thoughs and advice I will be building the walls seperate inside move outside and put it all together.