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whats behind my walls ???

  • 23-10-2015 5:27pm
    #1
    sunnyday1234
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 540 ✭✭✭


    Hi guys

    house built in 2008. Cavity block with plasterboard inside. Behind plasterboard is 50mm kingspan.

    I have the enviable task of finding studs in the walls to hang stuff etc. I have a magnet and getting on ok as i can see the marks in the skirting where the nails are and i work up from there

    however wall in hallway (right inside front door at right hand side) - i cant find anything , nothing at all. Wall sounds hollow so my questions are

    1. what is behind this wall, there should be stud, no ?
    2. Around window frames the magnet sticks all the way along for about an inch high, is this the little metal piece around the window frame ?
    3. Should there be studs near the window frames in order to hang curtain poles etc?

    Thanks for any help


    Edit : I find actually that I can use the magnet to detect lots of nails behind walls that were built recently but only maybe 1 nail behind walls in original house from 2008. Is this because they are there longer and magnet can't detect through the board ?

    Am I safe enough to work up from skirting board nail holes , they seem to be 16 inch apart so likely in the stud ?


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  • #2
    shugy
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 409 ✭✭shugy


    sunnyday1234 wrote: »
    Hi guys

    house built in 2008. Cavity block with plasterboard inside. Behind plasterboard is 50mm kingspan.

    I have the enviable task of finding studs in the walls to hang stuff etc. I have a magnet and getting on ok as i can see the marks in the skirting where the nails are and i work up from there

    however wall in hallway (right inside front door at right hand side) - i cant find anything , nothing at all. Wall sounds hollow so my questions are

    1. what is behind this wall, there should be stud, no ?
    2. Around window frames the magnet sticks all the way along for about an inch high, is this the little metal piece around the window frame ?
    3. Should there be studs near the window frames in order to hang curtain poles etc?

    Thanks for any help


    Edit : I find actually that I can use the magnet to detect lots of nails behind walls that were built recently but only maybe 1 nail behind walls in original house from 2008. Is this because they are there longer and magnet can't detect through the board ?

    Am I safe enough to work up from skirting board nail holes , they seem to be 16 inch apart so likely in the stud ?



    Could be 400mm or 600mm apart.


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