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Exterior walls

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Exterior walls

- [Instructor] I've gone ahead and finished up the rough floor plan. So as you can see, it's really just a collections of lines. So we have all the rooms blocked out, as well as the hallways, that sort of thing, and we have it on this layer called FloorPlan. And as you can see, it's this object here. So now that we have this in place, we can start blocking in our structure. I'm gonna start with the exterior wall. So, actually the first thing I'm gonna do is I'm actually gonna turn off this floor plan, because we really just want to do the perimeter walls of this house. Now, before we do that, we do need to understand a little bit about how we plan to construct this building. I have a rough diagram of the wall. In this case, we're gonna use two by six studs, and that will create a thicker wall that will be stronger as well as allow you to have more insulation. Now, on the exterior and interior of the wall, we're gonna be putting half-inch OSB as well as half-inch drywall. So, the…

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