This is the City of Markham’s document, as published on its website on 18 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Markham
- Date
- January 1, 2025
- Also called
- Finger Jointed Lumber for Dwellings
- For
- builder
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 2
- Instruments
- NLGA Standard Grading Rules for Canadian Lumber · SPS-1 Fingerjoined Structural Lumber · SPS-3 Fingerjoined Stud Lumber - Vertical Use only
Overview
Builder Tip No. 79 of Markham's Building Standards Department, dated January 1, 2025 and updated to the 2024 OBC, linked by the City as finger jointed lumber for dwellings among its housing tips under the 2024 Ontario Building Code. It quotes Sentence 9.23.10.4.(1), Continuity of Studs, on studs spliced only by finger-jointing with a structural adhesive, and Note A-9.23.10.4.(1) on the NLGA product standards SPS-1 and SPS-3, vertical-use-only studs and the 19% moisture limit. Its objective notes that the lumber is graded and stamped SPS-1 or SPS-3.
What it covers
- 9.23.10.4. Continuity of Studs
- A-9.23.10.4.(1) Fingerjoined Lumber
- Objective
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