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An interior wall can look a bit different. If you're building it yourself, it might be smart to use a wood fiberboard behind the drywall to make future installations on the wall easier. Then you should consider what you need to have in the wall. More items in the wall, the thicker the frame needs to be. A simple wall consists of a 45 mm stud (wood or metal, your choice), wood fiberboard on both sides (OSB, plyboard, or particleboard; plyboard is the best but the most expensive), and then a layer of drywall on both sides. A stud spacing of 45 cm fits 90 cm boards, a stud spacing of 60 cm fits 120 cm boards. If you will tile the wall, the stud spacing should be 30 cm. Insulation is not normally needed for this wall. Insulation is used for soundproofing interior walls; many times, people insulate thoroughly only to then install a cheap interior door, which allows sound to pass through instead.
If you want it quiet in the room (or outside), you can insulate + purchase a proper wooden door; second-hand doors (the cheapest) can be fixed up with paint and possibly panel strips. A new solid door is quite expensive. If you want to build in drainage, or create elegant niches in the wall, you should choose thicker studs. A 45 mm stud gives, as mentioned above, a finished wall of 95 mm, 70 mm studs give a finished wall of 120 mm, and 95 mm studs give a finished wall of 145 mm.
Today it's fun to install, for example, the TV's antenna outlet and an electrical outlet a bit higher up where the future TV will hang to avoid cords hanging down to the floor.
An interior wall can look a bit different. If you're building it yourself, it might be smart to use a wood fiberboard behind the drywall to make future installations on the wall easier. Then you should consider what you need to have in the wall. More items in the wall, the thicker the frame needs to be. A simple wall consists of a 45 mm stud (wood or metal, your choice), wood fiberboard on both sides (OSB, plyboard, or particleboard; plyboard is the best but the most expensive), and then a layer of drywall on both sides. A stud spacing of 45 cm fits 90 cm boards, a stud spacing of 60 cm fits 120 cm boards. If you will tile the wall, the stud spacing should be 30 cm. Insulation is not normally needed for this wall. Insulation is used for soundproofing interior walls; many times, people insulate thoroughly only to then install a cheap interior door, which allows sound to pass through instead.
If you want it quiet in the room (or outside), you can insulate + purchase a proper wooden door; second-hand doors (the cheapest) can be fixed up with paint and possibly panel strips. A new solid door is quite expensive. If you want to build in drainage, or create elegant niches in the wall, you should choose thicker studs. A 45 mm stud gives, as mentioned above, a finished wall of 95 mm, 70 mm studs give a finished wall of 120 mm, and 95 mm studs give a finished wall of 145 mm.
Today it's fun to install, for example, the TV's antenna outlet and an electrical outlet a bit higher up where the future TV will hang to avoid cords hanging down to the floor.
Agree with the post above... however, with the addition that it's enough to fasten the wooden boards with just a few screws, then you have drywall screws that go through the drywall and the wooden board and into the stud. This also reduces the risk of hitting screw with screw when hanging the drywall.
