This is the floor plate and first
vertical for the new (repositioned) family bathroom front wall. The floor plate is initially installed across the bottom of the door aperture, but once the
rest of the wall is installed the door section is cut and removed. This makes it easier to ensure that everything lines up nicely.
One pitfall with stud walls can be for them to be too flimsy, meaning they can shake and rattle when for example doors are closed. To make sure this
isn't the case, I choose adequately substantial timber, and rather than just fixing it together with a nail gun as is the preferred method of many builders, I
use long screws in pre-drilled holes AND wood glue. This takes longer but the resulting structures are rock solid.
An extension of the same sort of skill as studwork, but a usually bit less uniform and hence more interesting/challenging, is the boxing in of pipes or
other infrastructure that needs to be hidden. I did a lot of this, at varying scales. In the Family Room, killing two birds with one stone, I boxed in
the extractor vent pipe from the cloakroom and the (orange) sprinkler pipe which had to go below ceiling level to get under the steel beam that replaced the
ground floor rear wall of the house.
I eventually covered this in plasterboard and then plastered it.
If you are tiling all the way round a room, one thing you need to take particular care of is that all the tiles are placed perfectly horizontal and aligned exactly. If there is any error then you will find when you get back to your starting point that the rows do not line up, which would look absolutely terrible. Doubtless in the old days there were clever schemes involving spirit levels and pieces of string to help avoid this, but the modern solution is to use a laser line. This will cast a perfectly horizontal and/or vertical line 360 degrees round a room, which you then just have to make sure you follow. Vertical alignment of the grout lines is slightly less critical than the horizontal alignment, but still important for a professional quality finish.