yes but you should have some noggins or cross pieces to help support and stop the wood twisting [you pays you money and takes your chances] good luck any way big all
lol, i will put some of them in seeing as im re doin it with 2*2...., just remove the plaster at each point where a noggin is going and pas em behind it ! i think ill need more than good luck lol, btw will the chippie want me to leave it un plasterborded so he can add noggins to hold wardrobs on or shall i just bored over it with say 9mm ply? oh and seeing as this wall is so thin and i dont want to come out other side, shall i just make an independant wall up? without securing to old 1 inch block wall? hmmm...never thaught chippie work was so damn complicated!!! ss
SS, why not give your chippie a call and ask him if he needs to fasten the wardrobes to the wall? If you are going to make an independant wall (very good for noise reduction) you could use 3x2 CLS. Keith
i think i will do mate, cheers for all the help anyway! i wont go near anything chippie related ever again i promise ss
If you're fastening wardrobes to the wall then it's hardly built in is it? Thought the idea of built in was you just put doors across the front and hangers inside??? If you're going to be fastening something to it that isn't going to be supporting weight than I would have thought that plasterboard should be strong enough. If it's going to be weight supporting then why not work out where it's going to be now, and fit supports in the appropriate place.
SS. 2x2 is the better bet really. There are a multitude of fixings out there now and any decent chiipie will find one that's right to fix the wardrobe. I carry about 6 diffent sorts of wall fixings with me at all times. Fix the batten VERTICALLY, at 16" centres. Thats what all us chippies look for, and with some Horiz noggins just to stop any bowing. Woody
cheers ukwoody....never again! and i thaught playing with wood was simple! tango man, waht would you call a wardrobe taht is fixed to a wall and basicly becomes the wall? its called built in mate! ss
Playing with wood is simple SS It's when you try to do more than play that you find difficulties. lol
well thats not what it is called.... what you are talking about is a walk in wardrobe....because you can walk into it.. dont see why you must pick straws, but if thats waht you want to do ss
NA! NA! If its screwed to the wall its fixed If its made of studs and gyproc its a walk in If its scribed all round its Fitted If its all different sizes its custom built and all this because a sparky dosnt' ken his 2 from his 1 and im cfuking sure i wouldnt try joining gyproc on an inch. definately a brave man ^_^
by the sounds of it its a: fixed, Fitted, custom built wardrobe! lol you make it sound complex like a refuse technition!
Just as well chippies arent like sparkies. If they were, one would hold a saw while 39 had to make sure the regs allowed him to hold it in his right hand.
supersparky please let us know how you get on with your unfitted fitted wardrobe or was it a movable unmovable cupboard or was it a unsupported wall supported or was it a who gives a dam what you call it as lon as it does the job good luck big all