Splitting a room/ window for a partition wall

greenface

you can use wider outerframe and by locking two frames together it will give you 100mm before you get to the glazing bead 3x2 stud wall with 12mm plasterboard fills that up . Pinch a bit more with some clip on down the middle . Other frames in the block will only have a 60mm mullion and yours from the outside would measure 140mm in the middle . you can chamfer the last foot down to fit in a smaller profile you could put a studded wall up to the wall and fill the reveal with something thinner like white or coloured glass to make the partition work

GDB2222

Why not just bring the partition wall to the middle of the existing window? Plenty of people do that. To avoid it looking awful from outside, as Greenface says, just use a thinner material for the last bit of the wall in the window reveal.

jscott08

Yeah that would be ideal, however not sure exactly how to do this as ive not seen it before. Does anyone have any pics of what this could look like (on the inside)?

jscott08

Anyone have any idea of what the above could look like?

DaftyDuck

What you can do, and looks very good if well done, is install a window into the end of the partition wall you are building, to conjoin to the external window at right angles. That removes the problem of wall thickness onto the external window, and it also maximises light into the two rooms. The internal window needn't be large, but it's generally better if it matches in size the half of the window it's replacing. If one of the rooms is private (loo, bedroom), you can use mirrored or obscured glass.

I've seen this in some very posh flats on the waterfront in a nearby town. In this case, it was designed in, so both rooms maximised the view, and because it was designed in, it looked perfect. Retrofitting it might not achieve the desired result, particularly if there's no view.

There's also the possibility of turning each of the window edges into window seats (as those flats did), but I doubt that would work unless you spent a small fortune.

jscott08

DaftyDuck wrote: »

What you can do, and looks very good if well done, is install a window into the end of the partition wall you are building, to conjoin to the external window at right angles. That removes the problem of wall thickness onto the external window, and it also maximises light into the two rooms. The internal window needn't be large, but it's generally better if it matches in size the half of the window it's replacing. If one of the rooms is private (loo, bedroom), you can use mirrored or obscured glass.

I've seen this in some very posh flats on the waterfront in a nearby town. In this case, it was designed in, so both rooms maximised the view, and because it was designed in, it looked perfect. Retrofitting it might not achieve the desired result, particularly if there's no view.

There's also the possibility of turning each of the window edges into window seats (as those flats did), but I doubt that would work unless you spent a small fortune.

I had actually thought about putting a window at the end of the partition wall, i've just never seen it done so havent had anything to work from. Dyou by any chance have any pictures of what it needs to look like?