Building a partition wall with a door without damaging walls, ceiling and floor

[spikenmittihanden]

I want to divide a large room into two smaller ones for my kids. The room is in an old house with high ceilings - the floor is old and beautiful, the walls behind the plaster are made of very irregular bricks (hard) with interspersed mortar (very porous) and have quite impressive stucco, the ceiling is mostly paper when trying to drill into it (I don't think it's possible to attach a ceiling beam to it).

Here's what I would really like to do:

Raise a partition wall with a door without removing any stucco or nailing into the floor. The wall would be around three meters long and about the same height. Is it possible? How can I think?

 

[Kurtivan]

What I have seen in the office when walls are put up that are not anchored either at the top or the bottom is as follows: They have used a rail at the bottom and sometimes at the top, sometimes made of metal but sometimes also of wood. These have had a sealing strip attached to the outer edge of the rails on the side facing the ceiling and floor. Between these, the wall's studs have been placed, but they are made slightly longer than necessary so that they really press tightly between the ceiling and the floor.

 

[BirgitS]

Hello and welcome to the forum!

There was an episode in some building program where they put up a partition wall in a rental apartment. Unfortunately, I think it was Timell's program, and TV4 has probably withdrawn it from Play. But what I remember is that they attached a U-shaped metal profile/bracket along the floor with double-sided tape.

However, similar questions have come up in the forum before, and you can read many tips in, for example, these threads:
https://www.byggahus.se/forum/threa...-faesta-i-tak-vaegg-och-golv-moejligt.215818/
https://www.byggahus.se/forum/threads/tunn-innervaegg-utan-hal-i-golvet.162361/
and a few other good pages with tips:
https://fixarfarsan.se/2015/02/regla-upp-innervagg-utan-att-skruva-i.html
http://www.viivilla.se/inredning/barn/antligen-eget-rum/

 

[spikenmittihanden]

Thank you so much!

It doesn't sound like it's completely impossible to put up a wall without a lot of drilling then. I've been a bit concerned that the load might be too high on the wall since there will be a door in it (which someone will inevitably slam a few times a week...), but I feel encouraged by this - thanks again.

 

[Filip Premberg]

...quite impressive stucco

I have the same problem, a stucco in the room that needs to be divided. Did you come up with a good solution for the stucco?

 

[Filip Premberg]

Thank you for the quick response. That's something like what I was thinking you would do. So there was plaster that was cut to match the stucco as closely as possible, then to cover evenly some kind of foam that could be painted the same color as the wall?

Anyone else have an idea of what this foam could be?

 

[yonna]

I removed my post because I feel like I've explained the same thing before ... easy to repeat oneself when you've been a forumist for as many years as I have
TS probably managed to read my post anyway. Cut foam rubber against the stucco. Put a fabric on the wall and over the foam rubber and painted the wall. Skilled carpenter who managed to get it smooth and nice up at the ceiling.