Panel replacement, studs too close together

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hbiss said:
There's your answer. Your problem is you are too fussy. There's going to be repairs and a mess. You are an electrician, not a magician.

-Hal
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Sorry but imo, you do what you can to be a magician which then makes you a great electrician.

I would use a sawzall and mark, with tape, the blade so you don't go too deep. Also remove any pictures on the backside of the wall as well as the front side.
 
Dennis Alwon said:
Sorry but imo, you do what you can to be a magician which then makes you a great electrician.

I would use a sawzall and mark, with tape, the blade so you don't go too deep. Also remove any pictures on the backside of the wall as well as the front side.
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I use a milwaukee 2527-21 6" pruning chain saw works perfect !
 
Use a reciprocating saw one that you can set the depth of blade to the size of stud. Works perfect to get that 1/2 you need
 
petersonra said:
How much of the stud can you cut away before it becomes a structural issue?
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The IRC doesn't directly address that question, the illustration only shows narrow face notches (into the narrow face), not wide face notches. The allowance for the former is 25% for load bearing walls and 40% for non load bearing walls, for prescriptively built wood framed walls.

Since the critical section property would be the cross sectional area, I think the same allowance could be used for a wide face notch in a stud. A wide face notch would be less deleterious to the out-of-plane bending strength of the stud, so I think overall it would have less of an impact than a narrow face notch.


Cheers, Wayne
 
Would it not depend on structure and next stud location. I just did one that had a stud at 24” on center. And the had one at 14” for panel to attach to.
That’s gone now.
 
Drywall and-or sheathing, especially on both sides,, greatly stiffens a wall. I have cut out a piece of a stud to widen a space and re-installed the cut piece in its new pace by screwing through the drywall into the stud.

On occasion I have attached the cut piece onto the side of the panel first, then inserted that side into the wall space, tucked in the other side and attached it to the uncut stud, then screwed the drywall to the cut piece.
 
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