Deck 37: Sheathing and Subflooring

Question 1

How many sheets of 3/4 inch thick plywood are required to cover a floor frame that measures 24 feet wide by 96 feet long?

Answer 1

72

Question 2

Plywood is used as sheathing for the exterior walls of a home that measures 24 feet by 46 feet by 8 feet. How many 4 x 8-foot sheets of 1/2-inch plywood are needed?

Answer 2

35

Question 3

How many square feet can be covered with nine 4-foot x 8-foot sheets of OSB?

Answer 3

288

Question 4

When the material is used on a roof it is called roof sheathing and when it is used as the first layer on a floor it is called the sub floor.

Question 5

A gable roof is to be covered with plywood. If each side measures 20 feet by 50 feet, what is the total number of square feet of plywood that must be ordered?

Question 6

On exterior walls the covering is usually called simply wall sheathing.

Question 7

A wall 48 feet long is to be sheathed to a height of 14 feet. How many square feet of OSB are required?

Question 8

Find the number of sheets of OSB required for the subflooring on all floors of a three-story house that has overall dimensions of 24 feet by 52 feet on each floor.

Question 9

How many square feet of sheathing are required to cover a wall 9 feet by 12 feet? Make no allowance for openings.

Question 10

The floor framing and roof framing is covered with __________ or ___________.