Building Partition Walls

I have taken a weeks holiday over Christmas and have great plans to make some serious progress finishing the downstiars toilet. We will see how that plan works out....

With the walls and ceiling plasterboarded the next job is to build a partition wall between the toilet area and a hall that will be the main access from the front of the house through to th kitchen extension.

I decided to tile the floor first and build the partition walls on top of the tiles. Since I am using large 600 x 600mm tiles this approach avoids a lot of tile cutting and cutting of awkward shapes around partition walls if they were installed first. The floor area is 2.4 x 2.7m which works out conveniently as 4 x 4 grid of tiles and a narrow 1/2 tile strip at the back of the room.

The images above and below show a 1000 x 800mm shower tray in the corner and a boxed off area for the washing machine and some storage. I used a 800mm wide sheet of WBP plywood and fixed a sheet of plasterboard to the plywood to form a rigid surface for shower head wall.

I used another plywood sheet to make a small storage closet to hold hoover, brushes, etc. It can be seem in the near side of the image below.

Tomorrow I hope to start some plastering. At least I hope to get the ceilings plastered so I can wire in the lights and make it a bit easier working in the the enclosed toilet area.

Materials:

• 600 x 600mm Casa Dolce Casa Neutra tiles. These are the sames tile used in the kitchen extension.  When I bought the tiles for the kitchen a year ago I bought enough extra boxes to cover the toilet floor area and some of the wall.
• 4 lengths, 4.8m x 75 x 44mm rough white deal, pressure treated, €8.25/length.
• 2 sheets 8' x 4' x 3/4" WBP plywood, €30/sheet.