Plaster cracking in a timber frame house

Hi,

I'm building a timber frame house and my intention is to put up 15mm chipboard over the studs, with a 12.5mm plasterboard over that, and then skim the whole thing in plaster.

I've now been told that this will repeatedly crack from now till the house falls down. Now I expect the plaster to crack as the building settles, but every year?

Does anyone have any experience of plastering in a timber frame and what the long term consequences have been?

Rex..

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cabiri.tech
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It's fairly common in timber framed buildings not to skim the plasterboard, but to used filled and taped joints.

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Dave Plowman (News)

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