Alternatives to sheetrock?

It's cheaper to cover concrete block with studs and drywall than to pay people to plaster it (In the states anyways).


Used to - houses had 3/4" ship lap siding interior with only a 1/4" gyp bd on top. I helped a buddy tear all his old gyp out and we stuck with exposed ship lap. That ship lap actually looks pretty cool in the right context, but it won't be cheaper than gyp now. Nothing will be. You're only option with cheaper would be to somehow find a place with some salvageable lumber that you can get for free and put up yourself.

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Originally Posted by DougW

straw and hay are two different things, straw is the stalk of grain

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yeah I know that and grain is grown around here as well but the salient point in a thread about cheap building materials was that she had to truck straw > 1000 kms to mix with clay

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Originally Posted by tuco

Can he also jump buildings with a single bound?

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no but even tho he was pretty good buddy used to fall > the the rest of us on dynafits, but my point would be whom but a telewanker would bother to learn the old style plastering when nowdays a drywaller can just hang/tape/mud the sheetrock and collect the money?

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Originally Posted by XXX-er

no but even tho he was pretty good buddy used to fall > the the rest of us on dynafits, but my point would be whom but a telewanker would bother to learn the old style plastering when nowdays a drywaller can just hang/tape/mud the sheetrock and collect the money?

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Plastering is to sheetrock as lead work is to bondo in an automobile restoration. It is an craft rather than simply a skill. Well done plaster, like well done leading, is awesome and I think perhaps more durable in the long run. But it does have its bad points. It tends to chip away in chunks if not using a pilot hole and concrete bit. It also cracks over time, with slight foundational shifts, whereas sheetrock cracks less due to the paper on both sides.

When I was growing up, we lived for a few years in an old house in Geneva Switzerland...it had plaster throughout...and big old beams and posts. The plaster wasn't perfect and it wasn't really supposed to be.

Yup buddy was a craftsman for sure he also showed us picts of the house he built using the wood from a couple of 150 yr old barns, the finishing was fucking amazing

We did a bike tour in AK to get out of the constant rain I stayed in a cabin paneled on the inside with OSB and decorated in old beer promotions and it was fucking grim, I don't recommend bike touring in AK or paneling a room in OSB

In New England they do a lot of plaster over blueboard still.