WilderSueden
2023-01-04 17:28:10
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For example, 29 to 36.5 cm is of course not a huge difference. Whether 10 cm gypsum board or 12.5 cm lightweight construction or 11.5 cm sand-lime brick is also not much. Drywall or gypsum board does not save wall floor area, but time.
I’m not really familiar with drywall, we only have solid walls. That's why I briefly googled and found drywall walls starting from 5 cm. That is naturally a saving compared to 11.5 cm + plaster, if you have several such interior walls. Sound insulation and load-bearing capacity are then presumably rather moderate?
- Weberhaus builds more ecologically, i.e. wood fiber instead of styrofoam insulation, but has a worse insulation value for that. Danwood achieves a KfW 40 wall with just under 35 cm wall thickness. (Plaster already included)
These were just the examples we specifically looked at. With 17.5 cm sand-lime brick and EIFS you get a similar thickness depending on the materials used. Monolithic construction is of course another story, it requires a few centimeters more. But comparing monolithic with a styrofoam wall is not entirely fair either.
My main point was the statement that prefabricated houses would be so much thinner. That certainly used to be true; we were at my parents’ over Christmas and the walls there (Okal Haus from the 80s) seemed really strange to me. So ridiculously thin, basically ;) Today, however, it has become much closer, and the question of thickness is probably relevant for very few builders.