Hi all first post �� Be nice!

Bought our house 4 years ago, its liveable but theres lots I want to do,
but with 2 kids 2 & 4 its hard to find the time.

Ripped out the bathroom around 2 years ago, really happy with how that turned
out!

Next project is where I need some advice, Im starting on the living room in
4 weeks, currently 6.0m long 3.6m wide.

The plan is create a living room approx 3.6 x 3.6, a study approx 2.4 x 2.4
the rest of the space will be a mid landing.

I started ripping plasterboard off to get a head start on the stud walls, the
2 external walls were fine no issues, 1 external wall was fine, my first issue
and questions are around the second internal wall which connects to our
neighbour, there are 2 boards deep, im assuming fireboard and plasterboard.

As I plan to re wire as I go and I also need to move a rad my questions a

1. If I rip down all board, do I need to replace both? Or can I just replace
fireboard? As I will be skimming Im assuming I could skim on top of either.

2 if I need to replace both are they staggered to improve strength?

My second set of questions are around the stud walls, when the plasterboard
came off Ive found that where I need to set the stud wall Im not in line
with any of the existing uprights and there are no noggins in the wall, there
are also pipes running where I plan on putting one of the walls, my questions
a

1 will the new stud walls be strong enough with the base timber bolted to the
concrete floor below and the top timber bolted to the ceiling joists, with
uprights at 400mm centres? I want to avoid putting noggins in the wall if
possible as it means I will have to unnecessarily re route some pipework to
get noggins in.

Im using 3€�x2€� c16 timber for the stud work, and I have 6€�x1€� to
put noggins in the ceiling to fix the top timber of the stud wall to.

Hope thats enough and not too much info.

Look forward to your replies.

Ben

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