What about walls?

Cuddlybearman

Hiya - I'm moving into a new house on Friday and I'm proper stressing about putting things on the wall. My current house in completely made of brick but this new house was built in 2011 and I don't know what I should be using for things like TV, Pictures, Mirrors etc?

pramsay13

Do you mean how you should hang things?
What did you use to hang them on the brick?
It will depend what it is, so maybe check with each thing. Generally for lightweight pictures just a small picture hook with a pin into the wall will be fine. For heavier mirrors or TV you will need at least rawlplugs and possibly screwed into wall studs, depending on the weight.

Cuddlybearman

What I mean is how to I know if the walls are partition or "dot and dab"?

stuart45

Do you want to know if you house is timber framed with a brick external skin, or if it is brick/cavity/block trad build.with dot and dab on the blockwork.?
Upstairs will most likely be studwork either way, but downstairs you will know once you drill into the wall.
Timber framed houses usually have weep holes about every 4th brick in the perps around DPC level externally. 
If you look in the roof space you should also be able to see what the gable end is made of. 
Also if you knock on the walls at lintel level, a timber framed house will sound solid as the board will be fixed to a solid piece of timber.

Ganga

stuart45 said:

Do you want to know if you house is timber framed with a brick external skin, or if it is brick/cavity/block trad build.with dot and dab on the blockwork.?
Upstairs will most likely be studwork either way, but downstairs you will know once you drill into the wall.
Timber framed houses usually have weep holes about every 4th brick in the perps around DPC level externally. 
If you look in the roof space you should also be able to see what the gable end is made of. 
Also if you knock on the walls at lintel level, a timber framed house will sound solid as the board will be fixed to a solid piece of timber.

Our 36 year old house is dot and dab upstairs and downstairs.

stuart45

Ganga said:

stuart45 said:

Do you want to know if you house is timber framed with a brick external skin, or if it is brick/cavity/block trad build.with dot and dab on the blockwork.?
Upstairs will most likely be studwork either way, but downstairs you will know once you drill into the wall.
Timber framed houses usually have weep holes about every 4th brick in the perps around DPC level externally. 
If you look in the roof space you should also be able to see what the gable end is made of. 
Also if you knock on the walls at lintel level, a timber framed house will sound solid as the board will be fixed to a solid piece of timber.

Our 36 year old house is dot and dab upstairs and downstairs.

Houses built in the 80's were still sometimes using 2 or 3 inch blockwork on the upper floor partition walls, but this one was built in 2011, so is more likely to have stud walls as partitions on the upper floor.