stud walls

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    Hang heavy Vanity Unit on stud wall

    Could do with some very simple advice please. I have purchased a wall hung 1200mm vanity sink for the bathroom wall. It needs to be hung from a stud wall and weighs 35kg - much heavier than I thought! The stud wall is new, not structural and separates the bedroom. Question: is this possible...
  2. TeachMeObiWan

    Thoughts on a beam

    Hi, I'd appreciate anyone's thoughts or suggestions or recomendations. I have a crappy old conservatory that needs something doing. Also it's too hot, so my thinking is to convert it into a garden / sun room. It's currently a lean-to with the left side wall being the garage wall, so the front...
  3. P

    Total max weight hangable on single stud

    I'd like to hang a gas central heating vertical radiator on a single timber stud behind a thin plasterboard wall. The stud is 38mm wide (actual size) and (presumably, difficult to measure) around 75mm deep. The radiator would weigh around 35kg in total, spread across a number of screws which can...
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    Garage lining & insulation

    Hi all, Will try and keep this short. Recently bought a house and it has a very old double garage (from 1964) which has been used as a bike workshop for a long time and I wish to convert it into a man cave / editing room for my job - so will need lots of sound proofing. I really do not know...
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    Size beam required to support stud wall?

    Hi all, I'm planning on surrounding my landing with a stud wall (replacing what was a banister). If I were to build straight off the existing outer joist (below where the previous banister sat), I would not meet the 900mm minimum width required for building regs. The width of that section of...
  6. M

    T&E wiring, behind insulated stud walls

    After a bit of initial advice, please. Decided to internally insulate a solid brick outbuilding as it's freezing in winter... in the process will be needing to move and add more electrical sockets etc, going to use said building for general craft/diy type projects. I had intended to build...
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