Ed Pawlowski wrote:

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Typically, how many horizontal studs were used ca 1965:
One near ceiling, one in middle and one near floor?


Yes, that is pretty standard with platform framing. Top and bottom
plates and in the center, a fire stop. They are often staggered along
the center to make nailing easier.

Back in stone age, we just called the row in the middle 'blocking'. It
doesn't really act as much of a fire stop (other than maybe for a
burning outlet in that stud bay), since if the room is involved, the
whole wall will light off anyway. Fire stops are between floors, or at
the edge of a ceiling in a balloon-framed house or basement, to keep
fire from propogating into a vertical chase. The one in the middle of
the wall is to stiffen the wall. Common in a tall wall, often omitted in
an 8 foot wall unless it is long and doesn't have other walls teeing off
from it.

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