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Anyone Added a New Wall to their Home?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by cson, Feb 16, 2006.

  1. cson

    cson Member

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    We are looking at buying a house and in the future would want to add a interior, non load bearing wall to "create" another room. It would be "standard" height, 8-10ft, whatever and about 15 feet wide. Anyone had a wall built or work in construction have any idea if this is crazy expensive to do? Thanks
     
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    Not hard at all.

    Where you might start running into issues is if you want to run power or plumbing through the wall, or having a door in the wall. Then it can get tricky, but it's not a major deal.
     
    #2 mc mark, Feb 16, 2006
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    Im building my own home right now, and Ill give you a lil piece of advice:

    Hire a professional. You might save a few bucks doing it yourself, but it will cost you in quality and your own sanity.
     
    #3 codell, Feb 16, 2006
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    Yeah I've learned that dozens of times w/ just menial fix it tasks 'round the house. :D

    mc mark- thanks for the info any idea on cost? Is it like hundreds, thousands, uber-thousands?
     
    #4 cson, Feb 16, 2006
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    I've been working on my house for month's now and the one word of advice I can give you is that most things take much longer than you think.

    As for putting a wall in I presume this is an interior wall in which case the framing isn't that hard along with the drywalling, just tedious and dusty. Running wiring and plumbing is trickier and my advice is to get a profssional to help with those.
     
    #5 Sishir Chang, Feb 16, 2006
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    #6 mc mark, Feb 16, 2006
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    thank you all
     
    #7 cson, Feb 16, 2006
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