Loadbearing?

[ban-all-sheds]

@BAS - stud walls have their uses. On upper floors, for example, they enable builders to position walls where convenient, which may not necessarily be directly over ground floor load-bearing walls.

If that's needed the loads can be transmitted to GF load bearing walls.

It just needs designers with a sense of what is right and proper, that's all.

And 25mm plywood wood be over the top - 1/2" ply or OSB would do. This, with the correctly spaced studs, would be OK for fixing wall units etc.

"With the correctly spaced studs". Who knows, and how do they know, what that correct spacing will be for the entire life of the building?

With studs not guaranteed to be in any particularly fortuitous place, and ½ " OSB fixed over it, can you guarantee that any load people might want to fix to the wall will of course be fixable absolutely anywhere on that wall?

 

[tony1851]

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With studs not guaranteed to be in any particularly fortuitous place, and ½ " OSB fixed over it, can you guarantee that any load people might want to fix to the wall will of course be fixable absolutely anywhere on that wall?[/quote]


Pretty well. The loads people might attach to walls are things such as kitchen wall units or tvs' etc. These loads can easily be supported by the correct fixings into 12.5mm boarding. Most of the load is shear, and these boards will be fine for the loads applied.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

"Pretty well" is not a guarantee.

And anything which has a bracket or fixing in which a screw is able to deflect slightly will move downwards under a shear load.

Try fixing Spur shelving to a stud partition wall, using hollow wall fixings into the plasterboard, and then install shelves carrying a significant weight.

I absolutely guarantee that the whole shelving assembly will move downwards.