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Hello, new to the forum, and hoping to find a place to get advice and tips with timber frame building. Living in Belgium, I'm making plans for an addition to our house, including a first floor level, over the addition and part of the existing house. At the moment sketching and figuring out what I want before getting in touch with an architect (required in Belgium...) I am wondering about laying out the walls, and struggling to fit studs in a 16" (center-to-center) grid. How does one start a wall? Work and measure from left to right, then fill out whats left at the end? Or position the grid on center, then work towards to outside, then fill out? Is there any common practice? Easiest way? Tips? Thanks in advance!
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Doing an extension and have laid a concrete slab which is due to have insulation and wet underfloor heading and then screed installed. I want to build the stud walls before the UFH is put in, but worry about cold bridging damp up the studs. Could do with advice on how to fit the sole plates either 1) screwing it into the concrete (could wrap it in visqueen) 2) laying a row of concrete blocks on dpm just below final screed level and then screwing the sole plate into them. Any practical advice would be welcome about the way to go...
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Hi All, I've been trying to figure the order of what to install when... Basically I have a mixture of load bearing timber studs that will be holding up the 1st floor and then roughly an equal amount of non-load bearing studs that mark out the rest of the room walls / cupboards etc. My floor make up is concrete slab, DPM, 150mm PIR, UFH, Liquid screed (45mm), resin floor. I have been told I need to build the load bearing studs off the concrete slab, which makes sense. My quandary is when to build these secondary studs and get floor screeded... I've got plumbing and electrics that will need to pass through both types of stud wall so need them ready for 1st fix. The guys doing my Air Source heat pump / Cylinder have said they'd ideally want to install cylinder etc on finish floor, which would imply UFH would need to be down and screeded to ensure floor all on same level. Options I have are: Build all studs off concrete slab. 1st fix everything. Insulate and put UFH down and then screed. Plaster etc Build load bearing studs. Insulate and UFH followed by screed. Build non load bearing walls. 1st Fix. Plaster etc any other suggestions to tackle this? Is there a "right" order to do things in? have manage to confuse myself as to the best approach. Help! ;-) thanks.
