Building New Bathroom Walls

Attach a top plate to the ceiling framing.

Building new bathroom walls.

To take ceiling slopes into account in your bathroom design click on the ceiling symbol inside the walls that are affected. This sounds like a formidable undertaking but the work is not complicated just heavy. Vinyl coated wallpaper is one of the better options for bathroom walls in terms of functionality all paper coverings will degrade in the moist environment. To build a new bathroom half bath shower unit kitchen or laundry room in your basement you ll probably have to build a wet wall to enclose the pipes.

If your bathroom doesn t correspond to any of the default standard shapes you can use free form room to create a room from scratch with your dimensions. In many homes you will have to break out the concrete to expose the existing drain line. Vinyl wallpaper has grown up and become sophisticated. There are a few options when shopping around for new bathroom walls that are waterproof.

But if 100 percent vinyl wallpaper makes you think of a hotel think again. To make creative changes to your bathroom s structure by framing some of its walls refer to the information you ll find below. An interior wall is typically built from 2 by 4 or 2 by 6 wall studs and framing covered with panels of gypsum drywall that are nailed or screwed to the framing members. Locate the new wall.

How to build a new wall.