Building A Wall In Our Bungalow 

The reason I would have removed the carpet is over time it will detiorate, meaning the stud won't be tight to the floor boards. I would have personally made the wall flush with the RSJ boxing on both sides and then installed pocket doors that would look very sleek. Great video I love your content

Excellent stuff, Keith! Now I've got the urge to build a separating wall... but absolutely no need for one.

Goes to build wall, ends up replacing floor. Sounds about right for my renovation experience so far.

"Manually by hand" cracked me up. Awesome video, very well documented process as always.

enjoyed the video very much Keith, very clear and good directions, many thanks

That looks to have come out really well :) One thing i learned ages ago, if you want a more sound proofed wall, and I guess it would help with heat transfer too, just use a 2x6 vs a 2x4 for the top and bottom plates and stagger 2x4 verticals and put insulation all around/through it. That way no sound or heat can directly travel via the studs to the other side of the wall. I like the trick of pushing in the brick spacers with the screw, I will have to remember that :)

Holy cow, the floor...!! I'm surprised nobody ever fell right through!!

I use an old bread knife to cut Rockwool, works a treat.

Try using a rasp on the edges of plaster it gives a clean edge

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Great work and well explained. Thank you

Ah yes,the classic "High nail leg lift" @10mins.... 8/10,superb execution lol!

Great job, so far

I'm with you on the plastering question - it's always seemed strange to me that we put up perfectly flat boards & then cover them in (if you're lucky) flat plaster - taping/filling & sanding is so much easier and cheaper

Nice job on building the wall Keith! Thanks for sharing the video with us!💖👌👍😎JP

Good video Keith, you make it all look so easy.

Your house renovation videos are my favorite 💕

Nice job Keith. The chosen method is probably the best especially in an existing and older house. Keep up the good work.

Looks good! 😄👍

So far i like it and i love the colour . I would love to see it finished and decorated !!!!! Nice job !!!!

Nice work!

My poor wife... You, sir, have inspired me to reconfigure my house! I know my downstairs is just a bunch of stud walls, nothing load bearing, so new layout here we come!

I love your content. Keep up the good work mate. Grettings from David in Sweden

Nice job, I've just put up a wall myself recently and glad to see I hadn't done anything radically different. I just used screws everywhere as I don't have a nailer.

Good job.

Great work👍 I have the same set up in my living room. One long room with an RSJ in the middle. I'm now tempted to put a stud wall in 🤔

Great video Keith. More DIY/ house work would be great. Chris.

My husband and I have done this, the only thing we did different was to put in solid pocket doors to save space. French doors are still pretty too and functional. Our preference was the pocket doors.

🙂 your repair of floor!!! No one will see..Nice wall and tempted to try myself in my new property.

Great video Keith! 💪🏼 love watching your videos just satisfying 😄😁 I’m a fully qualified site joiner and yes when building stud partitions, we do normally knock them up on the floor only if the floor is level! You did it the right way due to the sagging... Well done 👍 Also sometimes doing it in situ you get a much tighter/neater build quality, than knocking them up on the floor and lifting up.

Really enjoyed this mate. I’m scared of plastering as well. I’ve seen so many videos on Facebook of tradesmen touching a newly plastered wall and it collapses, shattering into a million pieces.

Nice start to the wall Keith...good call on the carpet

Nice job Keith 😁. I did exactly the same type of stud wall across our dining room years ago.. the only problem was.. the random line I decided to place it across the room was where the heating pipes were embedded in the concreat floor... not a good day 😖. Glad you squeezed the old stud detector gag in 😂.... go Dylan 🐱. Thanks for the video Keith, stay safe 😁👍.

Excellent work Keith. To be honest, not cutting the carpet away from the studding makes for good draught exclusion which in turn keeps the warmth in. Great video chap

14:05 If you pre-assemble a wall on the floor, you may not be able to stand it up. The diagonal of a rectangle (through the frame thickness) is longer than the edge (the frame/opening height). Ask me how I know.

Tape and filling is pretty common in Scotland paired to skimming when it comes to plasterboard strangely

Nice work and well done. We chamfer the edges of the plasterboards with about 45 degrees on the sides which stuck together before filling up with filler respectively before attaching to the wall. So the filler can balance the joints when the plasterboards expands and the filler can join with the material inside the board instead of the paper surface (sorry for my poor english, german native speaker 😊).

I'm not a plasterer but I have plastered a few walls in my many years on earth and I find the quicker you do it and with the plaster being quite wet the better the result .

You could check the crown of the studs is all the same way, so that the wall doesn’t wobble. Probably doesn’t matter here but worth checking on a longer wall. I would also mark out the top and bottom plate at the same time. Check out Larry Hun for some amazing hammer skills.

Love the fingering technique.

Looking forward to your solution on installing the new baseboard in that corner where you carved the drywall around the existing.

Just curious, wouldn't the same moisture damage happen later if you just put wood by itself in the same place in direct contact with the concrete like the damaged wood you removed? Did you coat it in something or use a plastic barrier to block the moisture before installing the replacement wood?

Another great vid what laser level would you recommend general diyer

Nice job mate. Oh and don’t let Ria drive the van....🤣

Great example! With respect to skim coating, you could do it regardless of skills (at least in my experience). Especially when you are working on your own home. Just takes patience, raking light and (MANY) more than the three coats a pro would use so she could get on to the next job.

Just for other people, in general you should take up the carpet and cut the skirts, it will be for fire and sound transmission reasons. I also don't know if you are really meant to put holes in plasterboard that is meant to be a fire protection for the steel, in a two storey house the whole purpose of it is to give 30mins fire protection. Tiny air gaps can really accelerate a fire, that is the issue.

Makes me laugh how we sound insulate walls with double door openings in 🤷🏻‍♂️

Great job Keith, but I must say I found it a botchie not cutting away the carpet under the studdiing, both of you Stay Safe and have a nice day !!!.

Next time you use plaster board, consider using something like the "Bosch D60498 Drywall Dimpler", it'll reduce the chances of driving the scree too deep into the plaster board.

I've done this recently. I had to split a bedroom into two. Pretty much exactly the same way I did it apart from the insulation which in hindsight would of been better considering two teenagers on either side. But hey ho. Great work Keith. Keep it up.

Great video Keith, real satisfying to see the room transformed so quickly! Out of curiosity what is an RSJ and why would it be used over timber?

Great video :-) I served 9 years as a 1st & 2nd fix joiner and built many a stud wall over the years. Couple of little tips which you may find easier if you ever build another one with a door way. If you start with the two vertical studs either side of the door way and work back to the walls it saves you having to faff about plumbing & packing out the two verticals against the walls. Oh! and 5:48 You've been letting Dylan do the driving again haven't you lol :-)

In the US we just use tape and joint compound to cover seams and screws

great vid,whats the bench called 5:53 it looks like a triton super jaw

Now is the time to get network and power cables in for Ria's and your office areas. That is something you will never regret. At least 3 per office - you can always use a network (LAN) cable for 'phone.

Never mind the wall!* What happened to your van? *Great job. ;-)

With the Sag in the floor. Seems like the best option to me :) Good choice with the walls. Leave plastering to the professionals

Great job Keith... Just wondering what happened with the damage on the side of your van though?

nice work i want to be woodworking but don't have tools:(

Nice build, another feather in your cap. You'll be able to charge for partition walls soon at this rate ;-)

Always enjoy your work. Question. What in the world happened to the side of your vehicle?????

Thanks for the tips Iv just started to do odd job for people so iv started a RU-vid channel called odd job bill to share my learning journey . Thanks bill

It puzzles me why we use plaster board and then plaster over it in the UK. I thought the purpose of plaster board was to replace the plaster and lathe(?) they used to use. Mind you when my father retired, my mum had him enrolled in the local college on a plasterer's course and got him to re-plaster their house.

Go Dylan!

Just a quick observation. When you did the hole to check the RSJ you mentioned there was a 20mm gap between the plasterboard and the steel work, ideally shouldn't have a gap there. When you stuck your finger in the hole did you check if the thickness of the boxing off was 1 or 2 layers of plasterboard? Unless something like 'fireline plasterboard' was used, there should be 2 layers of plasterboard. It's to do with fire regs. If you can imagine a fire in a room, the most severe heat and flames are at ceiling height and corners, and this is the location that with intense heat can cause plasterboard to fail in minutes. This should have been picked up on the survey (depending on the type of survey) you had done when buying the house and proof that it had been signed off by Building Control. Not being picky or anything but hopefully giving some useful advice, but being a Building Surveyor this is the type of thing that insurance companies will look for and could invalidate your insurance.

Where did you get your Milwaukee super jaws

Nice work as usual, Keith. Did you consider using Masonry Torx Frame Fixing Screws (Toolstation Product code: 39995) instead of the rawlplug method at 8:47 ? I've found them to be great - especially as all the bricks used in my home are the ones with holes in them, and rawlplugs always seem to find them.

Looked like there were no insulation under the floorboards, is this the case? Seems you would get pretty cold floors during the winter?

Great video. One question. Were you not concerned about the damp in the wall above the skirting? It looks like it's not only the floor boards that had moisture in them. Keep up the good work. I love watching your work.

All good but are there any windows in the room?

Probably would have used a multi-tool to cut the skirting away or removed the skirting completely and replaced but understand the reasoning behind not doing so. Not sure about assembling on the carpet as that is a surface that will alter. Maybe would have looked at pocket doors but they are more expensive. I don’t think assembling a stud wall on the floor and putting in place would work as you wouldn’t be able to get it to fit snugly, diagonal length greater then the height. Great video as always keep up the good work.

Ria how would you fancy having your office in the garage and I can just move my workshop into this massive space... don’t tell me it didn’t cross your mind 😂 another great job Keith I need to think of a reason to buy a framing nailer 👍👌

Hi mate good job iv built lost of stud walls in my time and i use both way and I think it up to the individual and what u feel comfortable with love the workshop Tour and ur new tools looking good mate if ur ever need any advice feel free to contact me on fb 👍

a tight fit on the studs would be more than enough to keep the wall in place, meaning screwing to the joist was a waste of time. I've held 4x2 in place with just instastik and it's never moved. If the opening for the door isn't perfect, just use some packers, it's how door casings are installed all the time. So much complexity for such a simple project

Wow..did you get a Survey done when you bought the bungalow?

Great job! Are you Sponsored by Milwaukee ?

I’ve seen people in other videos glue floor boards down as well as nails to prevent squeaking in the future. Do you think that’s overkill? Also great videos. It’s nice to have content from the same country.

5:57 Quick? Timber walls are so slooooow. That’s a hours work with metal studs. In the 24+ years I’ve been in the dry lining game I think I’ve built one timber wall. Says it all really. But, I do appreciate this is a woodworking channel 😊

Why using wood for framing and not using metal stud and system for drywalls?

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Place floor plate first then use plumb-bob to line up ceiling plate. 4 x 2 studwork when there's doors in it. 2 horizontal noggins per stud running parallel to each other. 12.5 plaster board, again as there is a door frame. Remove the carpet. Run base of stud all the way through and cut off after door studs fitted. Insulation unnecessary. At the moment you are going to get a lot of flexing/wobbling in the wall resulting in the doors not closing properly.

How come you didn’t Jack stud the opening?

Hi Keith , i see you were using your milwaukee impact driver. Didn't you use a hikoki before. If you did and no longer need it would you consider selling it . My one gave up so I have two batteries with no impact drive . I am relying on ordinary combi drill which do not cut the mustard in my trade(windscreen fitting) . Bye .

I find it strange we have 47mm X 70mm as is called a 3" X 2", but also a 38mm X 63mm can be called 3" X 2", actually I suppose the 38 X 63mm is actually 2" X 3" as if we've imported the Canadian standard, we need to adopt there nomenclature. Very interesting content, thanks!

it's just me being fussy but i prefer using 4" timber for stud walls, less flex

Nice job. Here in the US many builders will spray "orange peel" texture over the sheetrock/plasterboard. It can hide some imperfections and reduces echo. Special pneumatic spray gun with gravity feed hopper of a gallon or so of the texture paint - heavy.

Obligatory hate for not cutting carpet away! You should cut the carpet away!!! (Even though I would have done thing as you :D)

If you'd have cut the skirting board you wouldn't of needed to cut the stud or the plasterboard , also you could of just screwed the stud to the wall without packing the top out , aslong as you made the next one plumb 👍

I can't believe you didn't remove the carpet and put a stud wall directly on top, 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

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Hi keith, I subscribed to your patreon but afterwards I realised I could become a paid member of your youtube channel for the same price. What's the difference between the two?

Actually a good thing u didn't cut the carpet away is its tensioned between the carpeting strips cutting it around the floor board would have made the carpet bubble up so good thinking to screw right thru the carpetting

When using stub work as a full framed wall use folding wedges at the top or bottom to force the frame firm & fix through

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Personally i prefer to plaster a wall , i just love the look. But at the end of the day its personal choice. Im trying to figure out how im going to justify a framing nailer to my wife.

DAMP oh no

this is the wackiest floor plan i have ever seen......good job on the wall though, very useful vid

Hi, there’s a grate channel on the internet called “plastering for beginners” that is full of good content and introduces the best kept secret of plastering called a “speed skim” you can buy them at tool station. Give the channel a look, it won’t take long.

next time wen u are doing a stud wall and fixing to brick use concrete fixing instead of screws and wall plugs

Did you have to get planning permission to do any of this work?