ABSTRACT

Note that timber partitions are now referred to as stud partitions, or studding (derived from old English studu , meaning post).

13.4 MODERN STUD PARTITION Figure 13.3 : Although these partitions can be made in a joinery shop and reassembled on site, with certain tolerances made for the practicalities involved, the common practice nowadays is to cut and build them up on site ( in situ ), piecemeal fashion. The detailed sequence of doing this is given below.