How do they get away with it

[White Room]

I started back 71 on site and it was council new builds, solid plastering, clerk of works and solid built...

2 years later there was paramount, super thin walls..

Another site, Wimpey, about the same time, shuttered house frames, poured no fines concrete and this was a super fast building project for the council..dry linning, had a job to reskim some walls in one house which local anyway and the dry linning was bouncing all over the place..

This is'nt a new problem, in London a timber frame project burned to the ground recently and there was talk of going back to solid construction..

Lets be fair, a lot of 100 year old propertys are still standing but could they afford to build like nowadays, probably not.

Sorry about the waffling.

 

[widler]

25 years ago the dry linning adhesive was pink but no way not enough dabs though.

trust me mate,it aint pink adhisive,this was board finish

 

[On one]

im just on a extention now,and the houses is about 25years old,a biggish 4 bed detatched,nice area(for burnley),the drylining was stuck on with board finish:yikes:,i lie not,a dab in each corner,and one in the middle,onto breeze block as well,how these boards dident fall off when putting pictures up,i will never know,must of been held on by the scrim:lol:

Did some alterations to a house a few years ago and found exactly the same thing- dabbed with board finish,and thought you cheapskates,thing is they had a better hold on the blocks than todays dri wall!

 

[widler]

I started back 71 on site and it was council new builds, solid plastering, clerk of works and solid built...

2 years later there was paramount, super thin walls..

Another site, Wimpey, about the same time, shuttered house frames, poured no fines concrete and this was a super fast building project for the council..dry linning, had a job to reskim some walls in one house which local anyway and the dry linning was bouncing all over the place..

This is'nt a new problem, in London a timber frame project burned to the ground recently and there was talk of going back to solid construction..

Lets be fair, a lot of 100 year old propertys are still standing but could they afford to build like nowadays, probably not.

Sorry about the waffling.

we had the same problem up here just after christmas,a row of 9, 3 story new builds,wood framed,we don't see that much up here but has been more and more these last few years.
kids got in and set fire to them,ive been looking for the video,can't find it,they went up,and down, in about half hour,fastest spread of fire ive seen.
they was not plastered out,i priced them,got them,was going to start in the next month or so,30 grands worth of work,up in smoke:mad2:

 

[widler]

Did some alterations to a house a few years ago and found exactly the same thing- dabbed with board finish,and thought you cheapskates,thing is they had a better hold on the blocks than todays dri wall!

must of been good finish:lol: