Plan a stud or brick wall
Use the wall builders to list the frame, boards, bricks, blocks and mortar for a wall, with drawings and a cut list.
The Stud wall builder and the Brick and block wall builder work out everything for a wall, piece by piece, and draw it. Anyone can use them in full.
Describe the wall#
- Open the builder from the Walls group on Tools.
- Choose the shop sizes and the material: timber or metal studs, or the bricks and blocks, bond and whether it's a cavity wall.
- Give the first wall its Length and Height. Select Add a wall for the next one, and set the angle under Turn into wall 2: 90 for a square corner, 0 to carry straight on.
- Use Add a door and Add a window on each wall, with the opening's size and where it starts.
- On the stud wall builder, switch on the stock lengths you can buy, or add Another length.
Look at it#
The drawing above the form has tabs. The stud wall builder has Plan, Elevation, 3D and Cutting diagram. The brick and block wall builder opens on the elevation, so you can see the bond.
Read the result#
The result lists what to buy: studs, plates, noggins, boards, fixings and insulation for a stud wall; bricks or blocks, mortar, ties, insulation, closers and DPC for a brick wall. The sections below it give the cut list or the course plan.
Start from a wall on your floorplan#
Select a wall between two rooms on a floorplan, such as a partition, and the stud wall builder opens filled in with its length, turns, height, doors and windows.
- On a project's floorplan, use Build this wall. Saving the build to the project links it to the wall: see Save a floorplan to your project.
- On the free Floorplan creator, use Open in stud wall builder. It's a copy: changes in the builder don't go back to the plan.
The builder measures each wall on the inside of its corners, and the room you started from is its inside. Outside walls can't be built here.
Download the PDF#
- Select Download the cutting list (PDF) or Download the course plan (PDF).
- On Free, or signed out, the button explains that the PDF comes with Premium.
The stud wall builder is for non-load-bearing partitions only. Neither builder sizes lintels or foundations: a structural engineer does that.
Related
- Export floorplans and tool resultsDownload a floorplan as an image or PDF, and the wall builders' cutting list and course plan as PDFs.
- Save a calculation to a projectKeep a calculation on a task, re-run it as a new version and turn it into the task's materials list.
- Use a calculatorFind the right calculator, set the units and shop sizes, and read the result and its working.
- Draw a floorplanDraw rooms, shape and size their walls, and add doors, windows and openings in the floorplan creator.
- Work with several floorsAdd floors above or below, copy a floor's outline, change their order and see the next floor faintly while you draw.
- Save a floorplan to your projectKeep a floorplan with a project, link its rooms to the project's rooms and save new versions.