"Drywall"

[Commander Kinsey]

Anything can be chewed. That foam stuff for cavity walls is destroyed by mice. Totally useless.

[Commander Kinsey]

It's shit compared to wood.

[Commander Kinsey]

Builders don't have skills, they're robots following what they were taught in their apprenticeships. They don't actually understand what they're doing.

[Commander Kinsey]

So does a Lada Riva. Do you drive one?

[Andrew]

And fire :-)

[Andrew]

We have Pink stuff in the UK. Reinforced with glassfibre and

15mm thick to give 1 hour fire resistance (until sometime later a thicko tradesman or his apprentice makes holes in it to run in some new water pipes or cables and doesn't reseal the holes).

[Andrew]

Use Fermacell then. Strong as timber and Class O fire resistance.

[Andrew]

Termites love chewing timber in many parts of France and the USA

[Andrew]

Only if a BCO was involved. If not then single layer and a bit of fibreglass wadding if you're lucky.

[Andrew]

I can hear my neighbour on her mobile phone, if she is at the top of the stairs on her side of the party wall, which is a cavity wall, with two 4inch block leafs and a one inch air gap.

I think the (1976) builders used the wrong sort of blocks. Either that or the whole batch was defective and very porous.

[Andrew]

It's only £6 a sheet though.

[Andrew]

If you are going to give the whole wall a 3mm skim of gypsum multi-finish plaster, then you normally use square edge boards backside out.

Few big builders bother with a skim, they just tape and seal the tapered-edge and use a special filler on the joint then just decorate.

[Andrew]

Giving a 3mm skim of gysum plaster gives more knock-resistant surface. Useful for some applications.

[Andrew]

British Gypsum have a big catalogue of products and lath boards are (or were) one of the product lines.

[Andrew]

Absolutely no fire resistance, and is even worse than 'wood' in a fire because the glue gives off seriously nasty toxic smoke.

Also expands and contracts as the weather goes from cold/wet to cold/dry and hot/humid. Even more cracking and movement.

[Commander Kinsey]

Like I said, nothing is infallible. Correction as I hate double negatives. Everything is fallible.

[Commander Kinsey]

So you're having to take account of the scammers, wonderful.

[Commander Kinsey]

Says the man who think's he's a woman, and hasn't learned how to killfile me yet.

[Commander Kinsey]

New ways to make cheap shit when we already had a perfectly good renewable resource - wood.

[Commander Kinsey]

Trouble is nobody pronounces the two neighbouring Ts, so it always sounds like the company name. They did well there.

No, I'd use wood.