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If you decide to go 23-25’, stick with 24 or slightly less. When building, always try to stay in four foot increments as all sheet goods come in four foot incremental lengths. Plus your framing is in four foot increments. If you go slightly over that four foot rule, you’ll cause yourself a lot of grief and wasted costs.



Heed this advise! My room was EVEN incriments and we had very stupid problems drywalling! TO be fair it was something like 14'5" long and 16'wide, so needless to say we had to make more drywall creases then desired.

Also, if you are starting from scratch, I would advise using staggering studs in a 2 x 6 on all walls to increase the STC factor of your room.

Here is a little article I found in staggering studs. In the end you will loose 1" of space between walls compared to using regular 2x4s, but the benefit you gain is substantial.

-Robb.

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