Concrete floor and blocks on 1st floor

murphyep

Hello,
I will be installing my concrete floors on first floornext week.

What are your views on using block walls instead of timber partitions upstairs?

Could this be harder to heat?
Would I have to put a slab on teh block wall or could I plaster striaght onto it?


Cheers,
Eddie

rebellad

Nearing the end of our build in the next few weeks. We have concrete floors upstairs and used block partitions with no problems. The only issue we had was that the walls had to be chased for electrics up stairs as well. We didn't put any slabs on the wall plastered straight onto it.

murphyep

Thanks rebellad,

Can you place the walls anywhere upstairs or did you have to follow the walls downstairs?
Did it work our cheaper then timber partitions?

Sparky78

murphyep wrote: »

Thanks rebellad,

Can you place the walls anywhere upstairs or did you have to follow the walls downstairs?
Did it work our cheaper then timber partitions?

You'd have to check with the floor company is it ok to put walls upstairs to make sure there not over loaded. They usually ask this before you order I think. Your own engineer will probably need the calculations from the floor company to sign off.

I personally think the best benefit from the block walls is the sound insulation.

rebellad

murphyep wrote: »

Thanks rebellad,

Can you place the walls anywhere upstairs or did you have to follow the walls downstairs?
Did it work our cheaper then timber partitions?

Some of the walls followed downstairs and others not. To be honest we never looked into timber partitions. We were always going to go with block partitions so didn't even get a quote for the timber. As Sparky78 says you would want to clear using blocks with the engineer and the concrete floor crowd first as I think their is calculations to be done on what loading can be placed on the concrete floors.

Carlow52

if the loading from convention block walls are an issue, which u need to check, u have the option of using either hollow block 100mm or use some of the 'lite' blocks such as the ones made by the 'Mighty Q':)

Some people just dont like the lites so check them out: they are more expensive yes but much easier to work with.

Solid walls will improve both the sound and thermal performance of the rooms because the walls will retain heat and give it back more evenly than a TF wall.

murphyep

Thanks for the replies folks..

Definitely going to go block upstairs..spoke with my engineer this morning and he recommended using the lite blocks for this.


Cheers,
Eddie