With hopes of gaining your wisdom, I seek your help. I'm framing the walls in my basement in order to later install wet room panels. On one wall, there is a hole for the chimney where an old oil furnace used to be. My question is whether I should just ignore this and screw panels over it, or if I should put a vent on the panel into this hole?

Wall with metal studs and a chimney hole, part of a basement renovation project for installing waterproof boards.

The second question concerns one of the other walls. Is there any good method or support for the steel studs so they can be mounted to the wall even if the wall is uneven? Part of the wall used to be an entrance back when the room was a garage. The ceiling doesn't feel very stable for screwing the tracks into, so I would prefer to screw them into the wall.

Basement wall with patched concrete sections, visible piping and metal support beams, discussing drywall installation for uneven surfaces and old chimney hole.

My last question concerns the installation of a radiator. Do wet room panels hold up well enough to screw a radiator onto (like with molly screws)? Or should they be reinforced in some way?
 
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