On 18 Jan 2006 04:11:06 -0800, wrote:

I normally like to read the Jeff Howwell column in the Telegraph (web
version) but in todays issue he says "British houses have always been
built with timber stud partitions".

My early 70s house has brick or blockwork walls throughout, upstairs
and down. Should these be called something other than partitions, or is
he talking ********?

MBQ


He's generally "not well informed" to be kind about it.

There was an article on condensing boilers some while ago, where he
dredged up information based on UK first generation products (which
were crap) and what he might have heard at the morning mother's
meeting in the plumbing merchants. A great deal of inaccurate
information.

I can think of a variety of wall construction methods that I have seen
for partition walls (meaning non-structural):

- single brick
- single concrete block
- single breezeblock
- lath and plaster on timber studs
- plasterboard on studs
- paramount
- ....

etc.


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..andy