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Cheers all FMT - that looks great @chirpychippy can’t see pic? I’ve got no issue cutting and fitting MDF doors etc (will be painted), it’s just the white melamine carcassing I’m hoping to cheat a bit with…

I want to do some basic fitted wardrobes for my lad, nothing too fancy, just most of the way along one wall, floor to ceiling. Is buying wardrobe base units (like you would a kitchen) a thing? then fitting plinths, panels to ceiling, and doors. That’d be a lot easier for me time wise than...

Suspect you’ll get it down a bit with more quotes but not a massive amount. How much is that coloured window?

I’ve only ever foamed bits of board, which it’s a game changer for, but not full boards. I can picture it being a right ball ache and totally unforgiving to tap them around to get them plumb, like you can with dab, as theres no grab with foam until it’s set. Is that the case? Guess completely...

Does it? Oops. That probably gives it a better tacky grab, noted

It’ll expand a bit, but you’ll need to have the board held in place while the foam sets anyway so it’ll work fine. It wont expand to the degree that it pushes the board out, if that’s what you mean

Sticking with my non-plasterboard guess.

Have you got access to it from outside? Would need to see pics..

Wow. Great to see you back fella.

Parapet / coping stones rings alarm bells…

I’ve never used the acoustic boards, as I’m a wimp and like to work with 6x3s. The most success I’ve ever had was a combo of rwa45, metal resilient bars and normal boards. Made a very noticeable difference

Cheers all

Cool, I’ll use whatever people suggest, doesn’t have to be the stuff I mentioned

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What do you put in stud walls?

Got a 4x2 CLS stud wall to insulate, board, skim etc. Will use the rockwool acoustic/rwa45 slabs/knauf acoustic slabs. The 100mm size of these will just about manage in the 89mm space, right? While since I’ve done it. I’ll pack out with strips of plasterboard if not.

Plasterboard/cement board/asbestos. Gut feel is not plasterboard as the paper face tends to go brown over the years, and just looks more like cement/aib type thing to me. If plasterboard, inside bit might feel fairly soft/chalky compared to cement/aib. Nails were dead common until whenever...

You don’t need a vapour barrier on a party wall. Whether you need one on the external walls may be up for debate, but from what I understand/can see, if I was doing it, I’d staple one up before adding the plasterboard.

Not sure what you mean by concrete slabs and concrete studs, but if it’s a party wall, forget vapour barriers or thermal insulation and focus on dense acoustic rockwool stuff.

You could try, just make sure it’s not near a joint which could break and cause an involuntary drain down… At a push could also just remove rad and work around the pipes and make good when it does get redone