I am going to build a partition wall to divide the bedroom in the cottage. The wall will be 2x2.3m. The cottage was built in the 70s. The other interior walls are built with 70mm studs covered with 10mm particle board, no insulation. The walls in the bedroom are also particle board + wallpaper. The old and new walls will be wallpapered. Since it's a cottage, we are trying to keep costs down.
1. Is there anything that speaks against building the wall in exactly the same way as the other interior walls and covering it with particle board?
2. How is the particle board (or other better material?) best prepared for wallpapering?
1. Is there anything that speaks against building the wall in exactly the same way as the other interior walls and covering it with particle board?
2. How is the particle board (or other better material?) best prepared for wallpapering?
I would have built with a 45x70 frame insulated with chipboard/OSB and drywall because you get a much better sound barrier with drywall, and you have something behind to screw up shelves and pictures, etc. Then you get a durable surface on drywall on chipboard so the tape always cracks somewhere...
It might be unusual to have three particleboard walls and one gypsum wall. But it doesn't show through the wallpaper. I don't know if the biggest problem with particleboard in the wall is that the board moves more than the gypsum or if it's that it attaches worse to the studs since it's only nailed. But it often cracks at the joints. I wouldn't make a new wall with particleboard as a surface layer if the intention was to wallpaper. The surface is prepared the same way as gypsum. Roll the surface with wallpaper paste and let it dry before wallpapering.
Odd and odd, but if it is a dividing wall against another bedroom or room where there is more noise, there might be a reason..S Söderblad said:
But otherwise, it seems fairly pointless in your case, in my opinion..