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[–] r4venw@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

its shit but a lot of cheap builds use it.

Wait... What do you use to cover your (non stone) walls??? Is there some sort of beadboard or shiplap supremacy group I've never heard of?

[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago

yeah every place I lived in in Europe had brick walls for every wall

[–] sauerkrautsaul@lemmus.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

sheetrock with plaster on top

[–] Badabinski@kbin.earth 7 points 2 days ago

God I fucking hate plaster. Granted, my house uses oldish-fashioned metal lath and plaster, but it's such a ball ache. I wish it had been built with just drywall so I could use stud finders and shitty drywall anchors. Instead it's all fuckass toggle bolts and "use this giant magnet to find the stupid screw that attaches the stupid lath to the stupid stud." Ugh.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I have a relative that had these, he recently upgraded to drywall so he could easily make modifications.

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 5 points 2 days ago

sheetrock is literally a brand of drywall

[–] Sirence@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Why would you have non stone walls?

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Because there are earthquakes where I live literally all the time.

[–] Sirence@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

Interesting, I do live on a fault line (eger graben) and while the earthquakes are frequently here they are barely noticeable, they just sound like a loud car. Are the earthquakes wearing down the stone where you live, and what do you use for walls instead that can withstand bigger earthquakes?