Building wall construction

摘要

A building construction includes a wall, floor or ceiling assembly wherein a pair of walls or the like each include adjacent wallboards having edge formations defining a mating tongue and groove configuration. The wall pairs are supported in a stable manner by metal posts having a variety of edge flange configurations and which are captively secured within the confines of each wallboard tongue and groove joint. Tight joints between adjacent wallboards and the posts are insured by the formation of one or more kerfs in the area of the wallboard joints and which engage portions of the entrapped posts to provide enhanced rigidity throughout the wall height. By angling the post edge flanges outwardly and providing correspondingly angled wallboard kerfs, maximum structural integrity is achieved with use of minimum thickness wallboards. Ease of assembly of the wallboards to an erected post is facilitated by the formation of resilient struck-out tabs positioned to guide and engage the wallboard inner faces and which also serve to retain insulative strips juxtaposed each face of the post webs. Tip portions on these tabs subsequently engage and retain insulation batts as placed between adjacent erected posts. Stacking of the posts in a stable, compact manner is achieved in view of the openings as formed by the struck-out tabs as well as adjacent openings of a configuration permitting insertion therethrough of the tabs of a next adjacent post when stacked.