A stud cut through, found days before plaster
Services, studs and noggings: what a Cobbitty lock-up turned up inside the walls.
In short: A lock-up visit recorded a cut stud that needed support, plus missing and loose noggings, all inside walls about to be lined.
What the inspector saw
Inside the ground floor of a Cobbitty home, one stud had been cut through and needed support. Elsewhere noggings were missing in one wall and not nailed off in another.
How studs get cut
Plumbers, electricians and air conditioning installers all need routes through the frame. When a stud is in the way, the quickest answer is sometimes the wrong one.
Why noggings matter
Noggings stiffen studs and give the plasterboard something to fix to. Missing ones show up later as cracks and wavy walls.
The fix
Supporting or replacing the stud and adding noggings takes a carpenter a short time. Behind plasterboard it becomes demolition.
What to request
Ask the builder to rectify before the plasterer is booked, and to let us confirm it. The lock-up report on this job asked for exactly that.
Written by our local inspection team from work carried out in Cobbitty. Licensed building practitioners, NSW Fair Trading licence 366177C.
