I’m helping remodeling my neighbors bedroom in exchange for his accounting skills that I borrow sometimes. Anyway he has a 1930s house with lath and plaster. We demo’ed the bedroom down to the studs. We need to fur out the walls to get everything straight. I was planning on using furring strips,but thought about using 1-5/8 metal studs and just building new walls in front of the others.
What do you guys use or suggest?
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If you have existing walls I would go ahead and fur them out. How much furring do they need? Would strapping 1x2s horizontally work? Another approach is to snap a straight line on the floor and sister 2x3s to the existing studs, flush to the line and plumb.
I was using 1 5/8 steel studs in a basement yesterday. If you use them, go for 20 gauge as the 25 gauge ones are flimsy. If you check the price of steel you will quickly jump back to the 1x2 or 2x3 furring!
Billy
Edited 4/23/2004 5:36 pm ET by Billy
Could you shim the existing studs? How wavy are the walls?
Sistering new, straight studs to the existing studs is the fastest way to get good results. Wood studs will be much better insulators than metal studs.
i'd say sister the metal studs to the wood studs run a string top & bottom figure the the least amont of projection into the room that will get you squared up and screw/sister the metal stud to the wood stud... you will have an almost perfect wall and it should go fast with no shims
pony
Correct answer.
Have you thought about possibly just run ning "hat" channel horizontally on the walls ? I know it works very well for addressing wavvy ceilings.
How crooked are the walls? Since this is a bedroom, they don't have to be perfect. I often use strips of plywood of the appropriate thickness to fur out old walls stripped of lath and plaster so the new drywall is flush with door and window jambs, electrical boxes, etc., but otherwise a little waviness is not an issue when all is done.
Al Mollitor, Sharon MA
Thanks for everybody's input. We just finished putting the last piece of drywall up a few minutes ago. We're done for the day.
In case you guys were wondering. I sistered 2x3s on the walls and used hat channel on the ceiling. That worked out fine.