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About the renovate another room. Currently the room is split like this, with a small partition wall for a WC - it is a walk through room:
I plan to make this a separate room, without WC, like this:
The floorboards run top to bottom. I will be lifting the floor, cleaning out, changing the radiator, probably update electrics, insulating floor and external wall, replacing the window with smaller.
By coincidence, the distance from the external wall to new stud wall is 2.4m. There will be some rot under the floor in joists (some skirting is rotten, and had rot in all rooms on this wall). So I might just cut away the floorboards in the new room, leaving the corridor in tact, put in a new joist, and lay new 2.4m chipboards.
But, should I build the wall on top of the floorboards, or on the joists. Doing it on joists seems more sensible to me, but in my previous house, loft converts floored the area then built the walls on top. If I even need to lift the floor to access electrics, plumbing again, that would be much more work...
What is the best way though?
I plan to make this a separate room, without WC, like this:
The floorboards run top to bottom. I will be lifting the floor, cleaning out, changing the radiator, probably update electrics, insulating floor and external wall, replacing the window with smaller.
By coincidence, the distance from the external wall to new stud wall is 2.4m. There will be some rot under the floor in joists (some skirting is rotten, and had rot in all rooms on this wall). So I might just cut away the floorboards in the new room, leaving the corridor in tact, put in a new joist, and lay new 2.4m chipboards.
But, should I build the wall on top of the floorboards, or on the joists. Doing it on joists seems more sensible to me, but in my previous house, loft converts floored the area then built the walls on top. If I even need to lift the floor to access electrics, plumbing again, that would be much more work...
What is the best way though?