Hello!
I'm in the process of renovating a house and have more or less torn out everything to rebuild from scratch (it's a catalog house from '83 that no one loved and where smoking indoors had occurred). It's now an open plan with a ceiling open to the ridge, over 3 meters high.
I want to install a wood stove in the center of the house with the chimney next to the ridge and plan to build a partition wall in front of the stove as fire protection. My questions regarding this are as follows:
- Can I use lecablock of the smaller dimension (75 or 95 mm in thickness) for a wall that is so high? I saw that you can attach rails to walls that the blocks hook into; if I erect a stud with a rail at one end and attach one to the wall at the other, will they stand steadily enough? If I use this solution, can I then plaster the stud so it is not visible?
- My house is on a crawl space foundation and I don't want to open the floor and pour any kind of foundation to support more weight, so my (economically unrealistic) dreams of a tiled stove fell somewhat due to this. However, the lecablock I've looked at are hollow, so that should be okay?
Right now, I'm laying a solid pine floor on top of the existing chipboard floor. Is it foolish to lay flooring where I intend to build, aside from saving on messy work?
Thank you so much for the help!
Eli
