a friend of mine is moving into an apartment in new york that will only work if they put up some partitions and she asked me to help.
i have limited time but can try to do it myself if i can get enough information, otherwise i'd like to help her find someone who can do it for her cheap. they need temporary walls that won't do damage to the existing apartment and i know there're people on craigslist who advertise a "pressurized" system, that sort of thing. as i said, ideally i'd like to do it myself (w some other people to help w labor), but i dont know how this "pressurized" thing works and how to go about it.
have any of you done this, hired people to do it, or have any suggestions?
just build regular stud walls with insulation board underneath the finish on one side. don't mount them to the floor (or put a neoprene strip in between the bottom of the stud wall and the finish floor) and let gravity hold them in place. then they'll come right out w/ no damage to existing.
Fire officials said yesterday that an illegal partition appeared have cut off the path to the fire escape in Apartment 4-I, although it is not clear that the firefighters could have safely made it to the fire escape. Many apartments in the Bronx and northern Manhattan have been renovated into what amount to boarding houses, to accommodate the flood of immigrants who have filled the city's service industries in recent years.
Have you considered a demountable wall system? We use them a lot in our office space. They don't have to mount to the floor or ceiling and you can customize the color, height, width.
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a friend of mine is moving into an apartment in new york that will only work if they put up some partitions and she asked me to help.
i have limited time but can try to do it myself if i can get enough information, otherwise i'd like to help her find someone who can do it for her cheap. they need temporary walls that won't do damage to the existing apartment and i know there're people on craigslist who advertise a "pressurized" system, that sort of thing. as i said, ideally i'd like to do it myself (w some other people to help w labor), but i dont know how this "pressurized" thing works and how to go about it.
have any of you done this, hired people to do it, or have any suggestions?
do they have to be full height partitions? or will other types of screening systems -or- large bookcases to divide the space work
they need to be sound insulating b/c it's the bedrooms
(it's a roommate situation, they want to have private bedroom spaces)
the thickest insulation board you can find?
just build regular stud walls with insulation board underneath the finish on one side. don't mount them to the floor (or put a neoprene strip in between the bottom of the stud wall and the finish floor) and let gravity hold them in place. then they'll come right out w/ no damage to existing.
get into a laser cutting studio and go crazy.
this is cool, let us know what the fire department thinks about walls they were not expecting to be there, when the place is on fire....
http://cms.firehouse.com/content/article/article.jsp?sectionId=39&id=38633
Fire officials said yesterday that an illegal partition appeared have cut off the path to the fire escape in Apartment 4-I, although it is not clear that the firefighters could have safely made it to the fire escape. Many apartments in the Bronx and northern Manhattan have been renovated into what amount to boarding houses, to accommodate the flood of immigrants who have filled the city's service industries in recent years.
what type of ceiling/wall section? GWB on wood studs joists??
You can use glass curtain with blur PE film for private bedroom, which can be installed within 2 hours.
Have you considered a demountable wall system? We use them a lot in our office space. They don't have to mount to the floor or ceiling and you can customize the color, height, width.
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