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I need to make this archway narrower by about 6 inches to accommodate some pre-made glass doors/room divider. It was previously covered in a moulded plaster arch which we removed, leaving this wood beneath. I believe there’s a steel beam underneath the top bit, and the vertical side pieces are nailed into the brick.
To make it narrower I think my best option is to build a tiny stud wall and plasterboard over. But I think I probably also need to remove the wood that’s boxing in the steel, so I can plasterboard over that, because I’m assuming I won’t be able to skim over the existing wood.
So I think my best bet is to remove all the boxing and vertical wood pieces, build stud wall to make arch narrower, plasterboard the whole lot including the beam, then get a plasterer in to skim it all. Unless anyone here has any bright ideas to avoid any of that?
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