walls

A wall is a continuous , usually vertical structure of brick , block , stone , concrete , timber or metal , thin in proportion to its length and height , which encloses and protects a buildings or serves to divide buildings into compartments or rooms

walls are described as external or internal to differentiate functional requirements , and as loadbearing or non-loadbearing to differentiate structural requirement,

• External wall are those that enclose and protect a building.
• Internal wall are those that divide buildings into compaetments or rooms
• Load bearing walls are those that carry loads from floors and roofs , in addition to their own weight.
• Non-load bearing walls are those that carry olny their own weight and freestanding .
• Partition is generally used to describe a non-loadbearing internal dividing wall.