Walls

Find out everything you need to know about internal walls, external walls and ceilings, and how they affect the look and comfort of your home.

What's in a wall?

What’s in walls and ceilings?

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...

Retaining walls

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.

External walls

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

Partition walls

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...

Load-bearing walls

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.

Internal walls

Walls inside a home serve some different purposes to those on the outside of your home. Find out more about internal walls. The primary job...
Types of walls and ceilings

Types of walls and ceilings

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

Types of mouldings

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

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...

Architraves

Architraves are the mouldings that go around doorways, windows and other openings in walls.   Architraves are the mouldings that appear around doors and windows. What...