Dry walling for your home?

[Mars]

Would you use dry-walling for the internal walls of your house?

I'm thinking about it, It has quite a few advantages over masonry. Firstly its cheaper, secondly it goes up faster. It can be sound proofed and insulated.
The downside is that its soft, and it feels cheap.
The idea I'm playing with is to build the shell of the building and then install the internal dry-walling and fixtures myself to save costs.

I have dry-walling here in our offices and it works just fine in this environment, but I am a bit nervous about using it in a house.
I know its a standard thing overseas, but does anyone here live in a house with drywall interior walls?

 

[D3x!]

I split one of our rooms in our house with dry walling, came out nice.

it isn't soft though, but if you want to make it more solid replace the rhino board with something like MDF

and i would seriously recommend sound proofing if not using normal walls.

just remember that for example the bathrooms etc i would use normal walls.

 

[Venomous]

Would you use dry-walling for the internal walls of your house?

I'm thinking about it, It has quite a few advantages over masonry. Firstly its cheaper, secondly it goes up faster. It can be sound proofed and insulated.
The downside is that its soft, and it feels cheap.
The idea I'm playing with is to build the shell of the building and then install the internal dry-walling and fixtures myself to save costs.

I have dry-walling here in our offices and it works just fine in this environment, but I am a bit nervous about using it in a house.
I know its a standard thing overseas, but does anyone here live in a house with drywall interior walls?

If you do use dry walling I would still recomend that bathrooms & kitchen be built with normal brick walls due to humidity from water/cooking.

 

[D3x!]

and just fyi IMO our dry walling here is different to what Americans use in their houses, theirs is much more stable

 

[ice_cubes]

say hi to the cockroaches that will be moving into your house

 

[Mars]

Yea I was planing on building the 'wet' rooms out of brick, being the scullery and the bathrooms. The kitchen is open plan so there will not really be walls involved, other than the external brick and scullery walls.

By soft I mean that if you kick a wall with a boot on it you may put a slight dent in the plaster, probably just leave a mark. Whereas with drywall you will have a hole.
I am planning on putting soundproofing everywhere which is insect and flame retardant, tho I'm still gathering costs. Maybe with all the costs considered it will be close to masonry.

 

[Mars]

say hi to the cockroaches that will be moving into your house

Hell I live in a brick house now and I have to deal with roaches. They will live anywhere they have access to food.

Control your food and you control the pests.

 

[ice_cubes]

Hell I live in a brick house now and I have to deal with roaches. They will live anywhere they have access to food.

Control your food and you control the pests.

Once they get into the drywall & decide to live there permanently, they never leave. No pest control can solve that problem. When you decide to *debug*, they simple move out & into your neighbour's house temporarily. Then come back once the smell is tolerable.

/I lived in a house that had drywall for almost 16yrs.

 

[Willie Trombone]

Hell I live in a brick house now and I have to deal with roaches. They will live anywhere they have access to food.

Control your food and you control the pests.

+1.
Drywall is definitely doable if you're not a mason. The yanks do it all the time, even external walls, and you can tile on drywall, though I'd prefer not to.

 

[Mars]

Once they get into the drywall & decide to live there permanently, they never leave. No pest control can solve that problem. When you decide to *debug*, they simple move out & into your neighbour's house temporarily. Then come back once the smell is tolerable.

/I lived in a house that had drywall for almost 16yrs.

I will take note of that, but also remember that the soundproofing stuff is also insect repellent and flame retardant.. I seem to remember them specifically mentioning roaches.

 

[Biggie]

Hell I live in a brick house now and I have to deal with roaches. They will live anywhere they have access to food.

Control your food and you control the pests.

Agree with ice.In this case your drywall will be the food.

 

[ice_cubes]

Agree with ice.In this case your drywall will be the food.

+1
When we removed ours & split the wall into pieces, there were *roads* in the drywalls those raoches had been feasting on that *insect repellant* sponge thingie for many years.

 

[bubbatentoe]

dry-walling a residence is not really "big" in SA.

Brick is cheaper here than in say, the US.
They like dry-walling their houses.
it's quicker/less intensive/cleaner to work with than brick.

but when dry-walling remember:
don't fall against the wall.
don't punch the wall.
don't kick the wall
don't get it too wet.
insulation is not so good (sound).
& it offers no security whatsoever (a "biggy" in SA).

 

[McSack]

I was reading about a home-grown wall solution in popular mechanics while taking the 5 o'clock regular in "the library" this morning.
Can't think of what it was called exactly, but it's a system of hollow, interlocking bricks that you can buy ready-made or DIY moulds

... will check when I get home tonight and let you know, couldn't find anything on the PM website

 

[flamtech]

My son is a carpenter in the UK and he converted a second building on my property to a granny flat.

The conversion was fast and now I receive an extra income.

I think that you have to hit it really hard to punch a hole in it, and even if you do get a hole, it is easy to repair it.

 

[Wasp_21]

In my opinion, South Africans haven't had that mind-set change we need. We are fixated on brick n mortar. Even our banks are stuck in the middle ages. If i could redo my house, i would have gone drywalling (bank s wouldn't loan on drywall interior at the time) the benefits are there and it does work out cheaper. If you going to have a barney in the house and chuck norris roundhouse kick the pot plant at the wall, you going to have a hole. but then you don't have to be macguyver to fix it either. if you have pests, you will always have them. it can be dealt with. sound proofing may be an issue, but then just "talk" quieter.

 

[rorz0r]

I was reading about a home-grown wall solution in popular mechanics while taking the 5 o'clock regular in "the library" this morning.
Can't think of what it was called exactly, but it's a system of hollow, interlocking bricks that you can buy ready-made or DIY moulds

... will check when I get home tonight and let you know, couldn't find anything on the PM website

lego?

 

[Drunkard #1]

Would you use dry-walling for the internal walls of your house?

I'm thinking about it, It has quite a few advantages over masonry. Firstly its cheaper, secondly it goes up faster. It can be sound proofed and insulated.
The downside is that its soft, and it feels cheap.
The idea I'm playing with is to build the shell of the building and then install the internal dry-walling and fixtures myself to save costs.

I have dry-walling here in our offices and it works just fine in this environment, but I am a bit nervous about using it in a house.
I know its a standard thing overseas, but does anyone here live in a house with drywall interior walls?

I remember doing a varsity project on this quite a few years back.

IIRC, garden variety drywall is cheaper than brick (ie. 1 12.5mm board on each side of 63mm metal stud supports), but once you add the extra layer(s) you need to use to up the spec (for better fire, physical, and sound properties), you come back to the price of masonry.

It's cheaper to use in offices because the lighter weight means that the dead load of the building is lower - this advantage is almost exponential when you add each additional floor.

It can be used for houses and gives a nice smooth straight wall if done right, and will be as good as brick in every way, if you spec it right, but with a brickie costing R200/day, you've really got to consider what your time is worth before you decide to do it yourself.

 

[Billy]

lego?

Could work out expensive!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1214729/James-May-size-Lego-house-wants.html

 

[Billy]

I have two rooms with dividing drywalls. In both cases drywall was used because it was less disruptive and cleaner to build than brick and plaster.

Also the drywall is thinner than a conventional wall so space is saved.