Estimating Knee Walls

Knee Walls

Knee walls don't extend all the way to the ceiling. They should be entered into Basic Dimensions or the Room cards just as if they were full-height walls, since they still require baseboard, and usually take just as long to frame as full-height walls.

If you have a large number of knee walls, you may want to reduce the quantity for Interior Wall Area on the Finish Dimensions card, to account for the 'missing' area caused by the shorter walls.

When choosing wall framing in Specifications, use one of the knee wall line items--although small quantities of knee walls are usually safe to treat as regular walls, since the additional labor they require tends to cancel out the reduced material cost.