had read that most construction companies work with 15 cm for load-bearing walls or 12 cm for partition walls.
That must have been a very unreliable source.
We had considered making the interior walls with sand-lime brick because the sound insulation is supposed to be better.
I always have to smile when I read that. Which of you really gives both children an electric guitar or a drum set? - normal residential noise can be handled by other walls as well. The idea that you can put a biting wall in the way of sound is anyway a naive notion.
Construction companies prefer about 50/50 one of the two most common ways, either sand-lime brick or the same brick as for the exterior walls.
can someone tell me the roughly common width of a front door with a narrow sidelight?
A front door is usually sized at 1.01 or 1.135 m width. Sidelights under half a meter seem too frugal to me. Overall, one usually ends up (with
one sidelight) between 1.51 and 1.885 m.