build walls and floors a little help along the way...

[brange]

Hello!
I am going to erect a couple of inner walls, frame them up, and lay a floor, and I'm wondering a bit about the preferred order?

1. Should I frame up the walls and then frame up the floor and lay the flooring boards? And then screw OSB and drywall on the walls?

2. Should I frame up the walls, screw OSB, and then frame the floor and lay the boards?

3. Should I frame up the walls, screw both OSB and drywall, and then frame the floor and lay the boards?

The floor will be laid on 70 studs. How do you handle OSB and drywall on the wall; do you let it go down to the concrete foundation, or do you end the boards at the height of the new floor?

It got a bit difficult to explain, but I hope you understand what I mean.

 

[andersmc]

No, I don't exactly understand what you mean, but generally, it is easiest to start with the floor.

 

[zsimpey]

lay flooring with chipboard. then walls.

 

[brange]

it should perhaps be added that I am going to divide a room and only lay flooring in one of the rooms.. seemed most natural to put up the wall first... but I might have the wrong feeling =)

 

[Nimajneb]

Doesn't really matter in which order as long as you keep track of the level the floor will end up at

 

[brange]

ok but that's kind of what I was wondering too..
if I now put up a wall in the middle of the room and want to lay flooring only on one side...
on the side without flooring, the plywood and drywall will go from floor (that is, the cement floor) to ceiling
but in the part where I want to raise the floor 70mm, should the plywood and drywall go down to the cement floor or should it stop at the new floor 70mm up?

do you understand?

 

[tank77]

Don't understand anything from this thread, very strange!

 

[baljbalj]

I don't think the thread is strange!

In our house, they laid the floor after the walls, and the studs for the wall (lying at the bottom) ended up almost level with the floor, meaning there's nothing but the vertical studs to attach baseboards to. Vertical studs are tricky to find, and sometimes you have to attach between studs, which means you have to use metal expanders = super annoying.

So, insert something to attach the baseboards at least 95mm above the intended floor.

 

[zsimpey]

what height of moldings are you using then? you mean at least up to maybe?

 

[JOW]

#8: Now they often put a wooden board behind the plasterboard, so it's quite easy to put moldings etc. between the studs.

 

[Kattvovven]

If you lay the floor first, it becomes a bit more difficult if you later want to change the floor.

 

[baljbalj]

#8: Nowadays it's common to place a wooden board behind the drywall, so it's quite easy to attach moldings, etc. between the studs.

True! Didn't think about that, unfortunately they didn't do it like that before . In that case, the rule at the floor level (whatever it's called) is less significant nowadays (at least concerning floor molding attachment).

Zsimpey: what I meant was to add a stud so you can attach the tallest moldings you can imagine in the future. It's rare now to have moldings higher than 95mm, but who knows, maybe you'll find 200mm moldings attractive in 40-50 years. If you're the overkill type, of course