Walls

If you’re renovating or building a townhouse, terrace or duplex, chances are your home shares at least one wall with the neighbouring property. These are called party walls, and they play a critical role in ensuring both homes are safe, private and structurally sound.

Building walls are what we know best simply as the 'external walls' of a house. Find out more about what they are and how...

Retaining walls are structures designed to hold back soil and prevent erosion or collapse on sloped land. They create level areas on uneven sites, support garden beds and allow for tiered landscaping. Whether you're building a new home or updating your outdoor space, retaining walls often play a crucial role in shaping and stabilising your block.

The walls on the outside of your home not only protect it against the elements, but also provide support, and help to control the...

Partition walls help to divide and partition a house into different rooms and spaces. These walls are more easily moved and positioned.   Most modern partition...

There are countless many ways to build walls and ceilings - but obviously some are much better suited to certain environments and tastes than...

Most of the time you see them, walls are flat, uninterrupted surfaces. But there's often quite a lot going on behind what you can...

Whether you're knocking through a wall to create open-plan living or planning a second-storey extension, understanding which walls are load-bearing is essential. Removing or altering a load-bearing wall without proper assessment can put your home’s structural integrity, and safety, at risk.

Mouldings offer many ways to decorate and finish walls and ceilings. Common types of mouldings include skirting boards, cornices, architraves and dado rails. Interior moulding...

Skirting boards, also known as kick boards and baseboards, are the mouldings that run along the bottom of walls. What is a skirting board? A...