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archie456

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Hi,

In our building the steel columns will be cased in 2 layers of plasterboard, which is the same finish as the partition walls.

The engineer has produce a model of the steelwork, I've used rectangular architectural columns which 'warp' the plasterboard wall surface around the column - this works great.

The problem I have is where a column is not against a wall, its in the middle of the room - when I use an Architectural Column its has no surface to attach to, and so does not show two layers of plasterboard.

Whats the best way of casing independant columns?

Thanks.

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mbsteve

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draw a wall around them, if columns are rectangular, then include nailer, if columns are wide flange then use two different walls one with nailer, one just drywall.

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archie456

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Yea - we though of doing that, I just wondered if there was a 'clever' way of doing this, like the way architectural columns work.

I guess not then.

Thanks for your reply.

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