BF2S Forums Chinese Drywall; unimaginable clusterfuck.

ATG wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

ATG wrote:

is it all a lie designed to stimulate the construction economy, wreck the insurance industry and make chinese imports less appealing?

We ran completely out when these major imports happened. There was absolutely no problem with drywall sales after Katrina.


This is a problem in homes built in 2005-08. There is no mistaking the smell in a house with Chinese drywall. sulfur like.. the pipes are corroding.

Speaking of pipes corroding...my slab is leaking again.
There are so many final straws I head a hay bailer.

That happened in our old house about 20 years ago. They ended up re-routing the water through the attic. Most people have to wait a minute for their water to warm up. We had to wait for it to cool down...lol

Copper transfers heat. Sounds like an oven tbh. I've got Radiant barrier attached in my attic. It's this only attic I've ever been in that isn't hot as balls in the summer.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Reciprocity wrote:

Copper roofs are better.  Properly installed, they last forever.  If I had the money that's what I'd install on my house.

Here some crapball would steal it, they steal live cables already.

Anyone would strip an entire copper roof cause the idiot living under it, deserves to be robbed.. at gunpoint. lol.

lel
what would rain do to that..

Concrete roof tbh.

Concrete foundation, concrete walls, concrete roof.

Conrete ftw!

Hurricane2k9 wrote:

Electrify the roof >

Yea copper isn't a good idea to have in the lightning capital.

Flecco wrote:

Sydney wrote:

11 Bravo wrote:

brick house, steel roof.

Concrete, concrete and nothing but concrete tbh. Designed to survive serious earthquakes.

Sure concrete lasts forever. It's also ugly, and hard as hell to alter and... it's. fucking. ugly. You can't say Soviet Russia made for pretty cities.

@ Spark.

Polished concrete can look really nice. I think Sov Russia was ugly because they didn't care...

All our houses are solid concrete here. It's nice tbh, means the floors don't creak. It just means you need a proper drill if you plan on mounting anything to the wall.

ghettoperson wrote:

All our houses are solid concrete here. It's nice tbh, means the floors don't creak. It just means you need a proper drill if you plan on mounting anything to the wall.

lol, I had to rape my wall to mount my VESA mount.

Constantly hitting reinforcement iron

Kmarion wrote:

Block and stucco is pretty much the standard here. Inside it's drywall. ..OFC?

Jesus, can you imagine remodeling a house that is entirely block? Every wall is load bearing..lol.

A) Not all block walls are necessarily loadbearing, Putting in RSJs is epic fun BTW, I'll find some pics Anyway, I hate drywall - crap sound and thermal insulation, cracks all the time. I'd consider two layer drywall but not single.

B) If your wife tells you to remodel the house its your hard luck, just get on with it, blubbing about how hard it is just seems to make them dream up even more jobs.

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Spark wrote:

Flecco wrote:

Sydney wrote:

Concrete, concrete and nothing but concrete tbh. Designed to survive serious earthquakes.

Sure concrete lasts forever. It's also ugly, and hard as hell to alter and... it's. fucking. ugly. You can't say Soviet Russia made for pretty cities.

@ Spark.

Polished concrete can look really nice. I think Sov Russia was ugly because they didn't care...

Rendered walls look great too. Tis besides the point.


Also, polished concrete is very, very easy to fuck up. As are those trippy coloured concrete finishes.

Dilbert_X wrote:

Kmarion wrote:

Block and stucco is pretty much the standard here. Inside it's drywall. ..OFC?

Jesus, can you imagine remodeling a house that is entirely block? Every wall is load bearing..lol.

A) Not all block walls are necessarily loadbearing, Putting in RSJs is epic fun BTW, I'll find some pics Anyway, I hate drywall - crap sound and thermal insulation, cracks all the time. I'd consider two layer drywall but not single.

B) If your wife tells you to remodel the house its your hard luck, just get on with it, blubbing about how hard it is just seems to make them dream up even more jobs.

Depends on what grade of insulation you use. I have at least R-40 in my walls, R-60 in my attic, and radiant barrier on my roof. Heavily insulated drywall is actually more efficient than concrete. If you've got cracks you're using shitty, most likely cheap drywall. I did however get settling cracks on the exterior of my house, the concrete. It's inevitable in Fl, easy to fix.