Anna Kettle wrote:

I have allocated a space for a shower-loo-sink room but what I'd
_really_ like is to squeeze a separate loo-sink into the space as
well. After lots of entertainment as I drew the layout on a large
sheet of white paper and walked around to make sure that there is
enough space to fit it all in, the answer is yes it will fit ...

... if I make the wall between the shower-loo-sink and the loo-sink
out of something much thinner than a normal stud wall. I'm thinking of
using 22mm blockboard faced with 9mm plasterboard on one side and
faced with a wall of the shower on the other side.

I'm planning for the shower to be "Steam cabin" Screwfix 83798 so the
shower wall will be a sheet of plastic

Two questions ...

- Has anyone used one of these steam cabins or seen them in the sheds?
Are they the bees knees or a heap of tat?

- Will the blockboard/plasterboard wall be good and rigid and will it
be at least reasonable for sound dampening? The wall is only 1.3m
long. Would some other material like plywood be better? Comments
please

Anna

couple of observations:
sheet ply is stronger than blockboard
ply is stronger than plasterboard, which would add sod all to the
stiffness of the wall.
Lining paper will make ply into a nice paintable surface, and is 1mm
thick.

You've got more or less no space for the usual sound deadening
materials there, but for better soundproofing you might be able to get
some kind of foamed rubber sheet a few mm thick in there.

I take it this wall lines up with a joist above such that a line of
many screws at whatever angle will fix it at the top. If not, whats the
fixing plan?


NT