Make two out of one: partition walls

  • 4 years ago

If you want to have several rooms in your home, for example, to separate the office or work room from the living room or to create a separate children's room when there are offspring, you can do this in a fairly simple and inexpensive way. With the installation of a partition wall, one room can be made into two. To ensure that there is sufficient space despite the division into two, rooms of 20 square meters or more are particularly suitable.

A built-in partition can be made of wood, metal, aerated concrete or plasterboard. Especially the dry construction method of mounting partitions has many advantages over a masonry wall. With step-by-step instructions on the website of "Das Haus online", amateur craftsmen can learn how to erect a drywall partition on their own. Drywall partitions are economical to purchase and can be customized. Before it begins construction and installation, it should first be determined where the partition runs along in the room, what its length and where the door will be located. Another advantage is that the partition can be quickly dismantled when it is no longer needed.

While a metal partition is easy to assemble and disassemble and bend over a curve, special attention should be paid to its sound insulation. To keep noise out of the adjoining room, a metal wall thickness of at least 12 to 15 centimeters is recommended. Wooden partition walls are available in single-shell or double-shell variants and are very easy to machine. Cellular concrete is also easy to work with and has the advantage that it does not need to be plastered. In addition, aerated concrete is characterized by its low weight. Much heavier are partition walls made of gypsum planks or boards. However, these can be erected very quickly by linking the large-area boards together with a tongue-and-groove joint.

Source: The house online
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