Blindingly Obvious

I am sure that you all have been watching the latest version of "The Block" just as assiduously as have I. (?) (Irony, in case you have not noticed.)

Among the various "human interactions" that this program displays (ad nauseum) there sometimes may be (at a great distance from the camera), some significant "pearl of wisdom" in the way of actual building construction.

The building construction "wrinkle" displayed (in the background) on the program transmitted on 18 March 2014 was the simple trick of installing the Noggins between Studs in a vertical direction instead of a horizontal direction. Hence, while between the 90 x 45 mm Studs were installed 90 X 45 mm Noggins, as per normal, the Noggins were installed after being rotated by 90 degrees from the horizontal.

This meant that, although each Noggin then occupied 90 mm of vertical space within the wall (in lieu of 45 mm of vertical space in "normal" construction), there remained, on each side of the noggin, 22.5 mm of space between the noggin and the later applied plaster-board. This then allowed the Electricians to install cables vertically, without drilling through the Noggins.

It also means that, should any Electrician later need to draw a cable down past these Noggins, there would be no need to either drill down through them from above with a very long extension on a drill bit or cut into them from the covering plaster board surface, which would then avoid any later "plastering and redecoration" of the wall concerned.

Please comment!



(In addition to the above, since I am posting this on an Australian site, I wonder if any of you out there are as disturbed as I am by the imagination of our American contemplates on various sites of referring to plain ordinary Stud bracing Noggins a "Fire Stops".)


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