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The first of my timber frame questions.


Jason L

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Evening,

 

So I am planning on my house being a timber frame construction and have 2 questions for now,

1. Is puncturing the VCL with things like screw fixings an issue?

2.  How do you fix heavy items to the wall, such as the radiators ?

 

Thank you

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I'd try to plan for extra wooden battens in the service cavity (between the existing studs) to take the weight of any heavy items, like kitchen carcasses, bathroom fixtures etc where their fixings are going to be. 

If air tightness is important to you ensure any penetrations are sealed and one cable per seal (there are specialised seals for this, not sure what they are called!)

If plasterboarding on interior you can get heavier duty plasterboard (gyproc habito) or fermacell with has a higher hang strength but easier to just find a stud as Peter says! 

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36 minutes ago, PeterW said:

1. no - they seal as they are usually under another board/batten 

2. find the studs, or the battens in the service void. 

1.  i was thinking of thinks like putting a screw in the wall to hang pictures up?

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31 minutes ago, mike2016 said:

I'd try to plan for extra wooden battens in the service cavity (between the existing studs) to take the weight of any heavy items, like kitchen carcasses, bathroom fixtures etc where their fixings are going to be. 

If air tightness is important to you ensure any penetrations are sealed and one cable per seal (there are specialised seals for this, not sure what they are called!)

If plasterboarding on interior you can get heavier duty plasterboard (gyproc habito) or fermacell with has a higher hang strength but easier to just find a stud as Peter says! 

Thank you  i quite like the idea of the heavy duty plaster boards,  maybe that together with the extra studs for rads etc

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