Ed and GGs

I keep looking, I keep finding.

Here¹s an excerpt from Early Stud frames in Australia, a paper by Melbourne
Heritage Architect Miles Lewis.

ŒAt the Tide Surveyor's house at Moreton Bay [Brisbane], of 1858, the studs
were of pine, measuring 4 by 3 inches [100 x 75 mm], and there is no
specific reference to larger corner studs. They were spaced at 18 inch [450
mm] centres, which is closer even than at Waitangi, and is the modern
dimension. The studs were tenoned into the plates, and 'batten braces' were
halved into the studs. In some examples the spacing is as low as sixteen
inches [400 mm], and it would be interesting to know whether this is related
to the period of importation of sawn pine plastering laths from the United
States in the early 1850s. In America these laths came in a standard length
of four feet [1.2 m], and thus constrained the spacing of the studs to
sixteen inches (or, presumably, two feet)¹.

I downloaded this off the web quite a while ago. If anyone is interested
I¹ll track it down and send the link.

Mick Dowling




On 21/04/2014 10:39 am, "Ed Minch"  wrote:

> 1857 - looks like we have a handle on it.  I wonder if the Romans - who
> standardized so many things - had a similar set of standards.
>