Blocking A Door With Plasterboard

How to block up a doorway with a cavity wall using concrete blocks.

Blocking a door with plasterboard.

How to plasterboard a doorway. Learn how to block up a doorway properly when you have removed a door. Understand the way you should block off doorways and windows safely. Allowing for plaster board thickness etc.

Creating a wall where a doorway used to be is a project you can handle provided you. On block work use browning or hardwall with a multifinish skim. This project is about filling or blocking up an old doorway or window opening using brick blocks and plaster. Usually four by two i would use 12 5 mm plasterboard then build your frame sole plate head plate then studs one on each side then a central stud.

Filling an old opening how to block up a doorway or window. Back blocks are plasterboard off cuts at least 200mm wide and long enough to fit between the framing members. Personally i would block up the door opening using a block thickness that will put you around 8 12mm below the surrounding wall if you can hardwall the. If you go for stud i would use aquapanel on the bathroom side rather than plasterboard finish both with a multifinish skim.

Gyprock back blocking cement is a simple and convenient way to adhere supporting back block strips behind joints in plasterboard sheets where there is no framing to fix to. The best solution is to remove old door and frame stud it out with timber insulate it for sound and then board it so its ready for skimming where units are going to be hung behind the plasterboard fit plywood patresses to screw into this is by far the best way to provide a solid point to hang units from as light blocks can crumble when you plug and screw into them. Remodeling projects often call for moving a door from one location to another.