So just want to put some shelves up on a fairly new build (about 25 years old) and would like to know about the construction. Was it standard practice to put wooden batons up at intervals in a room and for plasterboard to then be screwed to the batons?
Wood behind plasterboard
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Not common practice no. More of an alternative solution, if say a wall needed pipes hiding, or insulating, or the wall was coated with something, or the wall needed thickening out to meet another etc.
Generally, 25 year old builds with internal blockwork, would have dabbed plasterboard walls.
Drill and fix with (min) 70mm long screws
Establish what the construction method is , guessing may end in tears .
Exactly why I'd never buy one.
You can hang a picture frame from the plasterboard. Anything heavier needs attaching to the block behind it, packing out to the plasterboard surface level. I used thick washers for a radiator I fitted once to someone else's house. It worked, but it was horribly fiddly.
They're designed to be sold profitably, not to be lived in comfortably or repaired.
My stepson once purchased a 1980s building. The bathroom wall/hallway wall were 9.5mm plasterboard glued to 25mm plasterboard (which in turn was glued to another 9.5mm). The wall was held in place by 1" by 1" timber at the top and bottom.
So hollow? You can use standard plasterboard fixings.
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