Browse Forums General Discussion 1 Jun 30, 2011 8:46 am Hi All Have a couple of question that I hope someone can please help me with?? As part of our 50's timber home's floorplan, we have an extention at the rear of the house that basically consists of an area 5.8m x 3.6m in size. This room is currently used as a second living room / rumpus for our kids. As part of a larger renovation proposal, we would like to subdivide the back section of this room into a study nook / powder room. Approx 3.6 x 3.0 As an intial quote has come in at around 10k, I am thinking about tackling it myself! As there isnt any current internal walls, I would image any new walls wouldnt be load bearing? With this being the case, could a new partition wall be fixed on top of the existing floorboards? Furthermore, with adding a powder room, could sheeting simply be added over the existing floorboards in order to weatherproof & tile? For reference purposes, his area is supported by approx 18 equi-spaced stumps. Am I delusional? Or would this be a relatively simple conversion? Re: Subdivision of existing room 2Jun 30, 2011 12:42 pm Hi greggles, We're doing something similiar ourselves at the moment...you can check our blog out at www.ourdiydream.com for all the juicy details. Basically our room is about 5.8m wide by about 7.25m long. The room is on the second storey and on a suspended concrete slab with exposed brick walls and a ceiling with cornice already in place. The room was originally split into 3 rooms but the rooms were very small (3x3m bedroom) and it wasnt that well done so we pulled it all down and started from scratch. We split it into several rooms again - one for study area and the rest is an L-shaped master suite consisting of ensuite, bedroom and walk in robe. My partner built the framework up for each of the walls and with my help we lifted it up into place and then he screwed it off into the slab with big bolts (technical name!!) and nailed it off into the trusses in the roof with a nail gun. We've gyprocked all the walls except the ensuite which we have used blue board. We used non structural pine as they are not load bearing walls, just got them from Bunnings 70x35 at 2.4 lengths for $2.75/m. I think we spaced the uprights within each frame at about 450mm apart but if you are going to be hanging anything off them then you might want to consider doing less space. For example, we have bookshelves off one wall so we did the frames to line up with where we would need to secure the bookshelves. Same for the bathroom, we've spaced the frame so we have studs to secure towel rail to. For any doors you are putting in, it's a bit more detailed in terms of putting in a header when you are building the framework and then once you have gyprocked then you can get a door jamb set for about $21.90 and door for $29.50 from Bunnings. I'm no tradie so don't know all the technicals of it but this is just a brief overview of what we did. Hope it helps. We're still a work in progress with getting the whole space finished. It's going to look sweet when it is done though! Check out our renovation in progress at http://www.ourdiydream.com Follow us on facebook http://www.facebook.com/ourdiydream Check out what we are 'pinning' http://pinterest.com/ourdiydream/ 4 11199 1 19722 Hey, I am wanting to add a second toilet to my house, bit we have limited room. There is a hallway/entry that is never used, so was thinking this could be an option. Only… 0 4709 |