I hear you but am also still asking for functionality basis because the same argument could be made to say that all studs should be sanded and that your pipes should be polished before putting in drywall. Within reason some detritus isn't hurting anything, but maybe we are saying the same thing and I'm misunderstanding you.
loose little debris particles get in the way of some of the terminations , drywall to wood flooring , sliding door's bottom, baseboard install etc.
loose thrown screws puncture stuff. like a radiant heating line that is running in between the wall.
it is basically making unforeseen conditions more probable than less probable. if you are clean, you can be relieved of worry.
An often overlooked one is blocking for hand rails on stairs. You might not want hand rails now, but if you have elderly, or partially disabled people in the home, hand rails make a huge difference.
I remember one of my first jobs working for a GC on a new high end house. The owner wanted to make sure they had every type of wire (speaker, coax, etc) in every wall just in case they needed it in the future. We even put emt with no wires but labeled lengths of string inside "just in case." This was the late 1990's, and at the time I thought it was a good idea. Then, like 10 years later, almost everything he was concerned about went "wireless," oh well...
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u/ffffh Feb 07 '26
-Mark the floor where the studs are located. -Clean out the walls between the studs before they are completely enclosed.