Hi all,
We are making some new stud walls in a previously open-plan area on the first floor of our post & beam house. The walls will just be partitions, not load-bearing. The flooring we have upstairs is pine tongue and groove. Each board is fixed through the tongue in several places to the joists below so it is not a floating floor. Our electrics and plumbing are already in place, and none of them run under any floorboards. I am wondering if, in this case, it might be OK to fit the stud work on top of the flooring rather than having to cut out sections of the flooring for the sole plate. I thought it might be a good option (and certainly faster) to simply screw the sole plates through the floorboards to the joists. Thoughts and advice are much appreciated. Thanks
We are making some new stud walls in a previously open-plan area on the first floor of our post & beam house. The walls will just be partitions, not load-bearing. The flooring we have upstairs is pine tongue and groove. Each board is fixed through the tongue in several places to the joists below so it is not a floating floor. Our electrics and plumbing are already in place, and none of them run under any floorboards. I am wondering if, in this case, it might be OK to fit the stud work on top of the flooring rather than having to cut out sections of the flooring for the sole plate. I thought it might be a good option (and certainly faster) to simply screw the sole plates through the floorboards to the joists. Thoughts and advice are much appreciated. Thanks
