Acceptable practices with installing ceiling drywall before interior walls

[atvjoel]

This. A more succinct version of what I tried to say in #4. Whether or not you need the clips that laterally brace the walls to trusses while allowing it to move vertically is a different issue.

I think they are excellent, they secure the wall and allow for movement, I think they are excellent. All houses I have seen built correctly with trusses have used the clips and never installed drywall first. I am just living in small cabin with no plumbing way down the hill and as much as i can speed things up the better. But at the end of the day, probably not much time savings.

 

[atvjoel]

Truss clips are used to secure the top of partition walls. Truss clips allow the bottom chord of the truss to secure the wall with no bearing. How much a truss flexes is not something I know about. I would expect a fierce wind to have a slight effect as well as moisture content variations in the wood.

Really my only concern is snow load as far as movement goes. I get decent winds but never seen gusts over 50mph in worst storm in my area in past 10 years. I think I am abandoning ship on the idea because people are right with flex/truss settling. My argument is you could still semi float the interior wall and poke your truss clip through the drywall. This may sound like a hassle but I could put up 12' sheets of drywall and drywall both units ceilings in a day. Drywall is my least favorite in all phases of construction and the ceiling really adds to that. You still have to mud and tape but it will take me a week easy to go around all these interior walls. I could still theoretically slit a small hole for the truss plate, and mud/tape around those but at the end of the day is the juice really worth the squeeze, so as i gather this I dont think its worth doing.

 

[e hilton]

However, the bulge it creates would need to be addressed.

Would it be any worse than the bulge from framing screws used to attach metal studs to metal track?