Do you really have to lay concrete blocks horizontal for a wall
between a bathroom and a bedroom?

Philip

wrote:
Do you really have to lay concrete blocks horizontal for a wall
between a bathroom and a bedroom?

Philip

Most modern walls between upstairs rooms are not built with blocks at all,
but plasterboard and timber.

The only time walls are built with blocks 'on their side' are for walls
between properties, or for supporting steelwork, who has given you this
golden nugget of misinformation?

who has given you this golden nugget of misinformation?

My architectural technician said I needed to watch out for part E of
the building regs - building a wall to make a new bathroom next to a
bedroom. It is in block as I need to 'tie in' the existing walls as
much as possible.

When i look in part E - the only diagram with single block is with the
blocks horizontal. I just wondered if anyone had had to do this, or
if anyone had got away with a single leaf concrete block internal wall
recently.

All I can say about the building regs is - thank goodness there are a
finite number of letters in the alphabet!

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All I can say about the building regs is - thank goodness there are a
finite number of letters in the alphabet!

Ah but then there's Greek alphabet, colours, numbers, dotted numbers.
Hopefully, by the time they reach Part AAA-Beta-Magenta-6010.02b we'll not
be in a position to care!

Phil

wrote:
who has given you this golden nugget of misinformation?

My architectural technician said I needed to watch out for part E of
the building regs - building a wall to make a new bathroom next to a
bedroom. It is in block as I need to 'tie in' the existing walls as
much as possible.

I see.


When i look in part E - the only diagram with single block is with the
blocks horizontal.

Are you sure they were blocks and not actually bricks?

I just wondered if anyone had had to do this, or
if anyone had got away with a single leaf concrete block internal wall
recently.


Yes, everyone who has had to build an internal wall with blocks.

All I can say about the building regs is - thank goodness there are a
finite number of letters in the alphabet!

You can't have a nine inch wall seperating a bedroom from a bathroom - it's
totally way OTT - what's going to hold that weight up?