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Double Walls

Frame Through your choice. Alternatively, though, Double
Walls can be used, with the inner wall being
Frame Through walls can be considered the specified as a Furred Wall.
basic Double Wall type. A Frame Through
wall could be used as a double wall between Furred Walls are placed against the inside
hotel rooms for sound insulation. of a primary wall, typically an exterior wall.
An example is a concrete wall furred out by a
By default, all walls are specified as Frame framed wall with an air gap or insulation
Through in the Wall Specification dialog. between them.
See “Structure Panel” on page 392.
Rooms are defined in the normal manner by
Split Framing the primary wall, but the layers of the Furred
Wall are treated by the program as though
Split Framing walls divide floor and ceiling they were added to the primary. An air gap
platforms, as well as any walls they intersect. between the primary and furred walls should
The split occurs at the boundary where the be defined as a layer of one of the walls,
two double walls touch and is useful for usually the furred wall.
separating modular home units.
As with Frame Through walls, Furred Walls
Chief Architect frames walls and platforms do not split platforms or connected walls.
separately on either side of the Split Framing Unlike Frame Through walls, they do not
wall boundary, with no framing members connect or frame to non-parallel walls like
crossing it. normal walls. Instead, they will connect to
You can make floor platform rim joists touch other Furred Walls.
each other at the boundary between Split To create a Furred Wall, specify the primary
Framing walls or provide spacing to carry wall as a Frame Through wall and the
sheathing over them using the Build furred wall as a Furred Wall on the STRUC-
Platform to Exterior of Layer setting in the TURE panel of the Wall Specification dialog.
Wall Type Definitions dialog. See “Wall
Type Definitions Dialog” on page 386. Openings in Double Walls
To create a pair of Split Framing walls, Doors and windows placed in one Double
specify both walls as such on the STRUCTURE Wall extend through both walls. You can
panel of the Wall Specification dialog. specify how an opening builds through the
Double Walls on the CASING panel of either
Furred Walls the Door or Window Specification dialog.
The recommended method for creating See “Door Specification Dialog” on page
furring is to simply add the required air gap, 544 or “Window Specification Dialog” on
framing, and finish layers to the wall type of page 577.

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