Yes, as the title says, we have rebuilt where our front door is, so a window that was previously on an outer wall is now "inside."
Here we will have an opening between the two "rooms" that were created. I would prefer a round opening here, no window, just an open hole. I have looked almost everywhere for a smart kit for this, but haven't found anything good. I was hoping there would be a ready-made kit like an Arch Package for this.
So now I want help, partly with whether there is a good kit for this or tips on how the heck I do this in the best way!!
Grateful for answers!!
Here we will have an opening between the two "rooms" that were created. I would prefer a round opening here, no window, just an open hole. I have looked almost everywhere for a smart kit for this, but haven't found anything good. I was hoping there would be a ready-made kit like an Arch Package for this.
So now I want help, partly with whether there is a good kit for this or tips on how the heck I do this in the best way!!
Grateful for answers!!
Hi.
I was recently asked to make a hole between the hallway and the kitchen that was supposed to be round and one meter in diameter. With the risk of the hole ending up looking like Barbapapa, I tried to negotiate for a square hole, but was almost called an idiot and heard some mumbling about guys and interior design... There was no point in discussing, so I came up with a solution and concluded it might not be that hard, here's what I did.
1. Measured out the center hole on both sides of the wall.
2. Fastened a roughly 60 cm long strip at the marking and then drove in a screw 50 cm from the fastening screw, then I just scored around on both sides.
3. Cut a saw blade to the jigsaw, didn’t want to risk sawing into electrical conduits (again)... When I encountered studs, I just put in a longer blade and cut them.
4. Cursed a bit when I removed the wall pieces as telephone wires ran diagonally across the whole hole and not straight down from the ceiling to the outlet as I had hoped.
5. Since I couldn’t push the wires to the side, I had to move the phone outlet, but that was apparently good since it looked "messy" where it was. Cut open half the wall on both sides and reroute the cables, then attach new drywall for the holes.
6. Cut a bunch of approximately 10 cm long stud pieces in the same thickness as the wall studs 45mm and pressed them around the hole. Used a square to keep the pieces edge-to-edge with the drywall and screwed the pieces in.
7. Went to Woody to buy flexible MDF, but it wasn’t available. Then I asked them to cut 5 mm masonite. 2 pieces of 1600x70 mm. (70mm = wall thickness)
8. Applied a dab of adhesive on each stud piece and nailed it with a nail gun.
9. Then it was just a matter of puttying and applying a soft sealant in the joints and painting.
Material costs:
Custom-cut masonite 11 SEK
screws about 10 SEK
glue about 3 SEK
nails about 0.5 SEK
putty about 2 SEK
paint about 5 SEK
Total approximately 31.50 SEK
Time spent
fixing the hole about 2 hours
puttying and painting about 1 hour
moving the damn phone outlet about 4 hours
The bottom line.... Super easy as long as you don’t saw into the electrical conduits that some idiot decided should run in the walls. Everything should be wireless...
Regards, Jocke
I was recently asked to make a hole between the hallway and the kitchen that was supposed to be round and one meter in diameter. With the risk of the hole ending up looking like Barbapapa, I tried to negotiate for a square hole, but was almost called an idiot and heard some mumbling about guys and interior design... There was no point in discussing, so I came up with a solution and concluded it might not be that hard, here's what I did.
1. Measured out the center hole on both sides of the wall.
2. Fastened a roughly 60 cm long strip at the marking and then drove in a screw 50 cm from the fastening screw, then I just scored around on both sides.
3. Cut a saw blade to the jigsaw, didn’t want to risk sawing into electrical conduits (again)... When I encountered studs, I just put in a longer blade and cut them.
4. Cursed a bit when I removed the wall pieces as telephone wires ran diagonally across the whole hole and not straight down from the ceiling to the outlet as I had hoped.
5. Since I couldn’t push the wires to the side, I had to move the phone outlet, but that was apparently good since it looked "messy" where it was. Cut open half the wall on both sides and reroute the cables, then attach new drywall for the holes.
6. Cut a bunch of approximately 10 cm long stud pieces in the same thickness as the wall studs 45mm and pressed them around the hole. Used a square to keep the pieces edge-to-edge with the drywall and screwed the pieces in.
7. Went to Woody to buy flexible MDF, but it wasn’t available. Then I asked them to cut 5 mm masonite. 2 pieces of 1600x70 mm. (70mm = wall thickness)
8. Applied a dab of adhesive on each stud piece and nailed it with a nail gun.
9. Then it was just a matter of puttying and applying a soft sealant in the joints and painting.
Material costs:
Custom-cut masonite 11 SEK
screws about 10 SEK
glue about 3 SEK
nails about 0.5 SEK
putty about 2 SEK
paint about 5 SEK
Total approximately 31.50 SEK
Time spent
fixing the hole about 2 hours
puttying and painting about 1 hour
moving the damn phone outlet about 4 hours
The bottom line.... Super easy as long as you don’t saw into the electrical conduits that some idiot decided should run in the walls. Everything should be wireless...
Regards, Jocke
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