BBC "Wood in Finnish Construction" programme

[Ferdinand]

Listening to this programme by Maddy Savage:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct316s

 

Which is linked to this article:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-62798950

 

It came up with Finnish using a sheet material called "gypsum board" (in the context of cross-laminated timber:

 

At the upper secondary school, gypsum board, which is made from limestone and not flammable, is used to add an extra layer of protection on the interior walls on higher floors. "We need to take fire safety seriously," says Ms Airaksinen. "We also did a lot of simulation about evacuation and durability in case there will be a fire."

 

Is this just plasterboard?

 

The thesis of the programme is about sustainable construction, and it seemed to me to fit the not uncommon BBC pattern of something perfectly common being framed as a worldwide sensation because it is in a foreign country reported by a non-specialist reporter.

 

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[markocosic]

Fancy plasterboard.

 

https://inspectapedia.com/structure/Gyp_Rock_Sheathing.php

 

Fires don't like it. Bugs don't like it. Helpful in wildfire and bug country.

 

I wish I had known about it - I'd have cut in diagonals for bracing, then used this outside the timber frame THEN stuffed in insulation at our leisure THEN done the airtightness layer. And not worried about the effing bugs that effing eat their way through the breathable membrane that we did throw over the timber frame; or the effing pine marten that effing decided to shred it's way through the membrane and into the insulation to overwinter.

 

 

I think this is the same kind of thing and can sit outside for 6 months until the cladding is fitted:

 

https://www.british-gypsum.com/products/board-products/glasroc-x-sheathing-board-125mm#technical-description

[Radian]

1 hour ago, markocosic said:

Helpful in wildfire and bug country.

 

We're all getting closer to that place. I heard there were less flies in the UK after the summer heatwave. I can assure the environmentalists that they're all here still. Just hiding out in my attic.

[markocosic]

There's a rat in my attic in Cambridge.

 

Stupid cold roof. Stupid cushy insulation exposed to rodents. Stupid cavity wall ladders for rodents. Stupid terraced houses with a slumlord HMO 2 doors down. Stupid room in roof with no eaves access.

 

Bloody smart rat that eats at number 45 and sleeps above number 41 where it's quietest. Bloody smart rat that evades all forms of trap and poison. Took weeks to get the first one with a glue trap posted through a socket cutout.

 

Any new build for me gets a sealed construction inside and out!