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Framing question

1 Wild R/T said:
Years ago I rocked a garage, the studs were a mess & I wanted it to look good... It's my garage dammit... I spent a few hours with a string line checking & shimming low spots... The one big high spot I used a sawzall & cut about 1/4-3/8" off & then was able to shim it like the rest of the studs... Oh, a couple packs of door/window shims are your friend....
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We use power planers to shave material off of the studs. Our tolerance is 1/8" in 10 feet.
It is standard practice now to plane or fur out to get the walls looking right. We use a straightedge to gauge the straightness. It can be an 8" level, a strip of plywood or anything light and straight.
 
All here have given viable solutions. It all depends
on how you perceive your finished project to be
knowing what it took to get there.
Since junior highschool, I've literally sheetrocked
hundreds of homes helping my dad. 100 sheets
of 4x12 a day was the norm.
Circa Petaluma California 1969/1970..
The fastest, easiest fix, would be to fur out
the next two studs away from your bowed
mishap the same distance of the bow.
You'll never notice the surface transformation,
especially if the wall be textured and painted something other than a gloss.
 
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Stanton.
Agreed. Just letting the OP know of another
way to fix the problem without too much
work involved. How he does it is ultimately
up to him. I've run across many problems in
tract houses with crooked, bowed, and out of
square studs and framing.
 
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