Blocking up internal window between rooms - brick or batten?

[Harry Bloomfield]

Buy some bricks, ready-mixed mortar, a bucket and a trowel. You could do it yourself in less time than you'd spend getting quotes, making tea and otherwise fannying about.

Exactly! I'm no bricklayer, but years ago, I needed a door bricked up, and an alternative door opened up. As the bricks were bare, and on show, I opted to tooth the bricks in properly, and use original matching bricks, from my store, plus what came out from the opened up new door. I would challenge anyone, to spot where in the wall, the door used to be. It wasn't difficult, it only needed a bit of straight timber, to properly align it, as I built.

 

[stuart45]

My niece could do it.

My 15 year old grandson did ours.

 

[noseall]

Thanks for the advice, I’ll go from there. Soundproofing really is the biggest thing I want to achieve so it’s sounding like brickwork is the way.

I was thinking having someone brick it up and then a separate plasterer to finish.

Just block it up. No need for bricks if its being plastered. The beauty of using masonry v's studs is that the risk of differential cracking is slim. Plus if you use dense blocks you have the benefit of greater noise reduction. Just buy a wall starter, a herd of blocks, a couple of buckets of mortar and you're away.

Both methods have their merits and faults, so it's all about knowing how to steer around or counter them.

 

[robinbanks]

My 15 year old grandson did ours.
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Did well with that stihl saw didn't he!?

 

[stuart45]

Did well with that stihl saw didn't he!?

My wife insisted I cut the bricks for him. Being soft hearted I tend to spoil the grand kids so I cut them for him. She wanted the basket weave panel, was really she should have made the cuts, but used the excuse that she's too tired after doing all the housework, ironing and cooking etc.

 

[robinbanks]

she's too tired after doing all the housework, ironing and cooking etc

Always wise to be kind about support services that enable a smooth life; they probably soak up more than 40 hours a week

Genuinely impressed with the end result though!

 

[Ivor Windybottom]

I hope you told your grandson you'd had it plastered a couple of weeks later.