so all your walls going to be timber framed?
What's your per sq metre rate for skimming?
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Yep. The outside walls have a service void so the plasterboards are set on 25mm battens at perfect 600 centres, and those battens are screwed to OSB sheeting that is fixed (through a sheet of kingspan) to the studs of the TF. The internal walls are a bit wacky - for some reason the studs aren't at 600 centres but vary between 530 and 560, mildly irritating but I could lie the sheets longways as they do seem to more often line up on 2400 than 1200.. but then I run into the issue that the horizontal noggins are really all over the shop (1300 or 1500). Kinda irked about it actually. Currently looking at fermacell as an alternative as it seems that the edge-glueing doesnt need a noggin (though does need a stud)
£16 I think these days.. Certainly a lot less than the "3 month panic contract" rate I could be working for if I didn't want a reasonable level of job security, short commute in a non tech town and loyalty-rewarded-with-flexibility. Also a lot less than screwing plasterboards up, apparently.
Just had the first quote (£15 a metre) broken down for me into £5 a metre for affixing plasterboards to walls and £13 a metre for skimming them. Basis of my fermacell investigation
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that's the last thing I would use everything will look OK for a short while after a season or two after the wood has expanded and shrunk you will get cracks everywhere
OK for a wall or two but a whole house?
Yes
Just warning you of what's going to happen
If you ask me wood never settles it always contracts and shrinks
I was going to buy a flat as an investment last year there were 2 flats that was studded out in timber the biggest one which I was interested in had more cracks than you could count the little flat hardly any "anyway" I went back to visit the smaller flat a few months later and by that time it had just as many cracks as the bigger flat I saw all the photos of the stages of the build which showed all the wood studwork not for me bud even though I could make those cracks disappear and then rent it out the thought of keep snagging the flat for ever and a day just was a real turn off
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