Maybe I haven't got the terminology correct. We have brick (breeze block?)internal walls on the lower floor of our house, and thinplaster-cardboard-straw internal walls on the first floor. Are these calledstud walls?Question: How do you find the location of the wooden bits? Is there atypical spacing for these?Thanks.

When was the house built? If it's within the last 40 years, the upstairsinternal walls will be made of a timber frame covered by sheets ofplasterboard and then skimmed with a thin layer of plaster. The verticalframe members will typically be on 18" centres. You can find the studs with(would you believe?!) a stud finder - such as Screwfix 16093 (which alsodetects pipes and cables).If your house is older, the walls may well be lath and plaster. This, too,has a wooden frame - with a lot of thin wooden laths nails to it with aslight gap between adjacent laths. The whole thing is covered with plaster -often re-inforced with horse-hair. The frame members are much more difficultto find because the detector can't easily distinguish between the heaviertimbers and the thin laths. [Your description of plaster-cardboard-strawleads me to suspect that you may have lath and plaster walls].

Stud wall?

Apr 10, 2004 21 Replies

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Lurch 22 years ago

On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 07:51:24 +0100, in uk.d-i-y "Graeme" strung together this:

You can get a surprisingly good fixing in a strawmit wall by sticking a 2"x10 woodscrew straight into the wall, try it.

It's entirely up to you which way you do it. If it were me I'd fit the bath then tile up to it, it's always worked for me.

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N. Thornton 22 years ago

thanks, NT

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