Dry wall partition solution

When we built our house in the UK nearly 25 years ago the first floor walls were constructed from timber studding with a plasterboard finish that gave us greater flexibility in the layout of the first floor bedroom wall positions but on the downside they are rather lightweight and have given very poor sound performance.

This time around we will be using a metal stud wall system which is lightweight, flexible and can be constructed to give an acoustic performance and a 30 minute fire resistance. One such product is produced by Knaufdrywall.By choosing  1 layer of 12.5mm Knauf Wallboard each side of 50mm Knauf  'C' studs at 600 centres with 25 Knauf Crown Acoustic Partition Roll within the cavity. This will give us a good sound insulation, impact resistance and versatility.

 

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