Building an internal wall

Gilly

Gilly

Gilly

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Off to get some timber to put a frame together with our lass's dad.

I'm not entirely convinced he has it right. He wants to screw the top of the frame to the metal beam in the ceiling through the centre of the wood.

If its an I beam that'll just result in a lot of dead self tapping screws, no?

[edit]The house is over 100 years old. Anyone know what beam is likely (if it's original)?
 
Don't need tek screws for masonry and wood :/

There was a builder behind us in the queue at the build place. Knocked me out enough tek screws out the back of his van for nothing more than agreeing to take his business card :)
 
bitslice said:
Tek screws are for drilling into thin sheet steel, not I-Beams (which are a complete biatch to drill into even with a grade A HSS drill)
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The builder was happy enough with doing it, and I have a good drill on its way. We'll see. If it doesn't work I've lost nowt.
 
No. Been asking around but don't really know tradesmen. Both our dads have always just done stuff themselves.
 
That's what I have too. Bitslice had the measure of it. The rsj laughed at everything we tried, it's half an inch thick at the end!

Needless to say I just used adhesive but cut the wood so it was tight too.
 
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