Battening out for new plasterboard

[Eddman]

Hi everyone. This ight be areal newbie question....i have recently taken off the old plaster from a chimney breast in what is going to be the kitchn, the walls are exposed and need to be boarded. Inside the chimney is not 600mm deep so i need to batten the face of the breast to create a nice finish with the front of kitchen untis. My first question is....how do i fix the battens to the brick wall? How do i make sure they are plumb? I guess i then just fix noggins/transoms between them??

Any help would be great thanks, Eddy

 

[foxhole]

Plug and screw timber to wall, screw timber to wall and ceiling first then run verticals , this allows easy leveling . You can either let the wall stand off or if little room secure top and bottom to timber and pack each fixing to wall to keep the level.

 

[Eddman]

Thanks for the response foxhole. So i would drill holes into the walls (600mm centres vertically) brtween the fllor and the ceiling, then screw uprights against the wall with timber packing behind main upright so that it is plumb, then fix noggins between? Or would i screw and fix the top and bottom ones first?

How deep should i drill into the wall? What type of timber should i use? Sorry, this is all new to me...

Thanks again,

Eddy

 

[ree]

As above for battening out. But a couple of questions:

Is your intention to block the opening in the chimney breast by covering the whole face of the c/breast with plaster board? Redundant flues must be thro ventilated top and bottom.
Do you intend to have the flue swept?
Lower right in pic 4. dark patches can be seen on the plaster just above the skirting. Are they damp signs?

 

[Eddman]

ree - no i don't think that is damp. I have been advised that a membrane might be a good idea as chimney breasts are quite prone to rising damp.

The idea is that the recess in the chimney will house a cooker. The depth of the recess is about 550mm so i am going to stud and plasterboard so that the finish is all the same. On the outside of the chimney there will be kitchen untis so i would like the front edge of the units to be in line with the wall around the cooker opening. I have thought about skimming over the lower part of the recess and battens to the front face of the breast to match 600mm from the skim face - does this sound logical?

I don't know how to make sure all the verticals are plumb and in the the correct plane...Do i start with sole plates in the floor and then a head beam along the ceiling and fixe my verticals to these?...

thanks
Eddy

 

[foxhole]

Chimney suffer from falling damp, Rain, the chimney must be kept ventilated. Are you intending to vent cooker to chimney,[ not a good idea.]

 

[Eddman]

i was going to put an extract in above the vcooker...why is that not a good idea?

 

[foxhole]

Chimney is too high for domestic fans to push up , also grease build up could cause a chimney fire.

 

[ree]

No membrane needed.

Knock off back to bare brick in the fire place opening, and wire brush the soot from the bricks. Then prep with two coats of SBR (second coat tacky) and render in sand and lime at 3:1.

To the left of the c/breast you will only have room for one 1000mm unit (i guess) so whats the point in pulling out the c/breast to match the face of the base unit - the work top will project even further than the unit? The W/T could be notched around the c/breast cheek wall.

Unswept/unventilated flue soot can liquidise & penetrate brickwork to decorated surfaces - a far greater hazard than the odd raindrops.