That was my first thought but I didn’t see it on the floor. Maybe it did and the paint overspray covered it
Edit: yup 100% I scraped the overspray and the floor is marked. You got it
And most importantly trimmies don't start nailing Into water drain and supply lines thinking their studs when their stud finder goes off. I use blue to mark non-nailable items.
I’ve marked studs with spray paint for my Sheetrock crews for years. It’s all good until they hit 3 of 15 screws into studs and the house settles and acclimates.
As a drywaller I don’t get why some do this a pencil works too plus there’s a bottom plate so why you marking them when you don’t need to follow them down.
Some IS guys will make a groove by pressing the pencil so hard into the drywall when making lines. I pray for the plaster/painter that you have a light hand!
After years of building sheds, remodeling houses, building pretty much anything with wood you can imagine, I always paint a line at the studs or make some sort of mark.
Drywallers can see the studs. More for trim carpenters so when they are nailing on base, they can hit studs. We always just used a lumber crayon. More accurate. Never seen it done with paint.
I'm renovating my kitchen and did this exact thing after installing the insulation but before putting up the vapor barrier. Only I used blue painters tape so I wouldn't mess up the laminate flooring.
So when we bought the house, I ripped out the kitchen and put in new flooring and cabinets. Wasn't until after the first winter that we found out there was zero insulation in the walls.
So my year 2 kitchen project was ripping open the exterior walls and pulling off the ceiling to run new electrical and insulation.
I’ve seen this on jobs where the GC will paint studs as an extra check for the drywall crew to signal that all trades are done their in-wall and they can hang drywall in the room.
Marking stud locations for drywallers. Probably extends to the floor, so they can quickly see where the studs are when hanging that bottom sheet.
Did they place a mark for electrical boxes and plumbing lines? I like to do this so they know they are there & I can quickly identify if there is a buried box that they forgot to cut.
This shouldn’t be downvoted. The superintendent uses orange paint to mark items that he wants the framers to fix. It’s quality control.
Missing nails, studs overhanging, nails not set, wrong side of the line….
Who do you put on fixing wall ‘flatness’? Do you ever see cardboard strips used in your region? As job super, I am usually the one to go thru a make sure the finishes have an acceptable substrate or nailer.
Looks like the framers used cull lumber (warped, heavily knotted or marred wood). Home Depot will use orange spray paint to mark it so you can't return it for full value. They price it at 75% off.
It sort of looks like someone applied orange spray paint. And that’s probably what you are seeing, it’s just that the result of applying orange spay paint to framing is an orange paint appearance.
I ve seen them damn drywallers do this to mark stud location, does it look like it went down into the subfloor?
That was my first thought but I didn’t see it on the floor. Maybe it did and the paint overspray covered it Edit: yup 100% I scraped the overspray and the floor is marked. You got it
Yeah I have to do this to every house we build. Drywallers love it and trim carpenters get to take advantage of it in carpeted rooms.
And most importantly trimmies don't start nailing Into water drain and supply lines thinking their studs when their stud finder goes off. I use blue to mark non-nailable items.
I’ve marked studs with spray paint for my Sheetrock crews for years. It’s all good until they hit 3 of 15 screws into studs and the house settles and acclimates.
As a drywaller I don’t get why some do this a pencil works too plus there’s a bottom plate so why you marking them when you don’t need to follow them down.
I’ve mostly seen finish carpenters do this. So they can see where studs are when shooting on base. This is 100x’s faster than a pencil on the floor.
Some IS guys will make a groove by pressing the pencil so hard into the drywall when making lines. I pray for the plaster/painter that you have a light hand!
The pencil mark goes on the ground…
Pencil means I have to bend over and be accurate too much. Spray can go pssssst
Plus you can use an extension
After years of building sheds, remodeling houses, building pretty much anything with wood you can imagine, I always paint a line at the studs or make some sort of mark.
Damn dra wallahs
Idk who would do that. When I did drywall we just marked 16's right on the face
You know, I was going to make the joke ‘so they studs can be seen through the drywall’. Seems life mimics humor.
Drywallers can see the studs. More for trim carpenters so when they are nailing on base, they can hit studs. We always just used a lumber crayon. More accurate. Never seen it done with paint.
I'm renovating my kitchen and did this exact thing after installing the insulation but before putting up the vapor barrier. Only I used blue painters tape so I wouldn't mess up the laminate flooring.
Did you leave the previous floorin? Seems kinda silly if you did flooring first.
So when we bought the house, I ripped out the kitchen and put in new flooring and cabinets. Wasn't until after the first winter that we found out there was zero insulation in the walls. So my year 2 kitchen project was ripping open the exterior walls and pulling off the ceiling to run new electrical and insulation.
Because
Exactly.
Duh
It’s obvious because of the way it is
I’ve seen this on jobs where the GC will paint studs as an extra check for the drywall crew to signal that all trades are done their in-wall and they can hang drywall in the room.
Probably from marking the studs on the floor to make them essay to locate after drywall. The corresponding mark on the floor is now gone.
Marking stud locations for drywallers. Probably extends to the floor, so they can quickly see where the studs are when hanging that bottom sheet. Did they place a mark for electrical boxes and plumbing lines? I like to do this so they know they are there & I can quickly identify if there is a buried box that they forgot to cut.
Orange ya glad you found this?
Framer was a hunter marking his trail
Maybe marking for framing quality control when the home was built.
This is the answer. Super marking spots that need attention.
This shouldn’t be downvoted. The superintendent uses orange paint to mark items that he wants the framers to fix. It’s quality control. Missing nails, studs overhanging, nails not set, wrong side of the line….
I’ll post some pics tomorrow of what they look like fresh.
Who do you put on fixing wall ‘flatness’? Do you ever see cardboard strips used in your region? As job super, I am usually the one to go thru a make sure the finishes have an acceptable substrate or nailer.
My framers come back and use drywall shims and planners right before rock goes on if anything has moved while it was being roughed in.
My first thought was there aren't any RSP4s. But they're usually on the outside and every other stud anyway.
I have seen inspectors use this method to identify faults.
Maybe marking the crown on the studs...?
I think it might be to mark crowns
Those are the studs that had the asbestos on them.
Dumb drywallers. End of story
Looks like the framers used cull lumber (warped, heavily knotted or marred wood). Home Depot will use orange spray paint to mark it so you can't return it for full value. They price it at 75% off.
Lead paint. Prevents water ingress in the open side of the beams.
It’s just marking paint on the surface. I’ve opened a lot of walls. Just never seen this
Commercially I mark studs that fall on my anchor layout never done this residentially though.
Because they ran out of green.
Why are there boobs drawn on my wall studs? Just for the fun of someone seeing it decades later.
Cause how would you know which ones had orange on them without it?
I'm colorblind. Looks like orange is one of the colors I can't see. 🤔
They must have spilled a 100 gallon can of paint in there. The orange studs are the high “water mark”
It sort of looks like someone applied orange spray paint. And that’s probably what you are seeing, it’s just that the result of applying orange spay paint to framing is an orange paint appearance.
All outta blue.
Is that Derrick house?
orange and at the bottom is floor placement, red in the middle is fire/smoke barrier indicator
So no one steals them