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WestonP t1_j6gng72 wrote

Maybe I'm seeing an optical illusion here, but sure looks like that 2x4 is rotated 90 degrees from how you'd normally have a stud oriented. And is it even a 2x4? Might be a 2x3.

Only time I've intentionally framed one rotated that way for anything structural was in a corner. Otherwise, it might only be serving to hold drywall, so if that's the case, there shouldn't be much worry in hacking it up a bit.

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Hagenaar t1_j6jbkxb wrote

> might only be serving to hold drywall,

That's exactly what it is. A drywall backer. Framers often need to add these in inside corners where one piece of drywall would lack support.

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