Architectural Anchor Wall Plates from ISC, Essential for the Construction Sector

Architectural anchor wall plates in their various forms are absolutely essential components in the construction of houses, small apartment buildings, some small office or retail spaces, and some tilt-up construction applications. Inventory Sales Company in St. Louis maintains one of the largest inventories of standardized (and semi-standard) construction attachments, fasteners, fixtures, struts, tools, supports, and weld studs in the Midwest. The Fabrication Division is a specialty manufacturing division of ISC and can produce annual lots or bulk orders of fixtures based upon your samples or design specifications. Construction companies are some of the most frequent purchasers of our products, particularly anchors, studs, fasteners, and of course various architectural wall plating.

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Architectural anchor wall plates are used in “platform framing,” or “light frame construction” for housing and smaller buildings. Since World War II, this is the most common form of housing construction in North America replacing the very popular pre-1950s “balloon framing” method that had predominated housing construction in the US, Canada, and the Scandinavian countries. Most of the housing construction in the US and Canada now follows the light frame construction methods. Features of wall plating include:

Wall plates are horizontally placed structural elements at 90° to the vertical load bearing components of a wall frame (studs as in boards, not fixtures)
Horizontal wall plating is called a lintel or header, and can be used as a structural component
The primary use of lintels is expedited frame construction as it accurately places distances and angles between the wall studs as the frame is built horizontally, and then raised into position (this bears resembles tilt-up concrete construction with embedment plates)
Wall plates are used in tandem around the entirety of the structure
Sill plates—lower wall plates bolted or strapped (with galvanized strapping) to the foundation wall or slab; these plates are attached with J-bolts or similar fixtures and are structural supports against wind
Lower wall plates (aka “base,” “floor” plates)—wall studs and bottom frame are attached to create the rigid frame; in multiple-story houses, these are attached to the platform of the supporting floor
Upper wall plates (aka “top,” “ceiling” plates)—nailed into the upper wall studs creating the rigid upper frame; the second story floor, or the ceiling and roof frame is attached
Specialty plating fabrications

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ISC stocks standard and semi-standard plating. The Fabrication and Global Sourcing Divisions will handle your requests for bulk order fabrications. Contact us today for all of your construction needs.

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