Flo&Steffi
2025-07-13 14:48:24
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Hello dear forum.
Our names are Florian and Stefanie, both in their mid-40s. We have already built two houses in our lives, but solidly constructed. The third one is now coming up, into which we will move and want to sell the other two. According to our dream (which we could not realize before due to restrictive development plans), it should be a house in the Alpine chalet style, with 1.25m roof overhangs, plastered below, wood-clad above, small divided windows, etc., standing on a dream hillside property with a view.
Now it's about the different construction methods of timber frame houses. I have dealt intensively with all possible manufacturers and their wall constructions. I have not really found anything about the practice following the construction through research, and since you can probably not rely 100% on the distributors, all of whom claim to have the best wall system in the universe, I would like to raise a question here regarding prefabricated construction.
Providers like Schwabenhaus still sometimes use wall constructions today that "only" have 12mm drywall on the outside as well as inside. As a not quite inexperienced craftsman, I ask: How do you properly attach something in such houses without deliberately having to hit the stud cavity?
It is clear that drywall also has load-bearing properties, especially with drywall anchors. But: Whenever I use one, I pierce the vapor barrier that follows immediately after on all providers. That is a huge disadvantage, isn't it, or am I seeing something wrong here?
Bien-Zenker, for example, takes a different approach; they install Knauf Hardboard inside, which I already know from my own experience. It is like concrete; I would even categorize it as having better load-bearing capacity than brick. Likewise, Schwörerhaus (or others) install a wood-based panel behind the drywall layer inside, which is also highly load-bearing. The total thickness is always in the range of 12.5+18mm, so about 30mm, and you can attach quite a bit with 5-6x30mm wood screws. With their precise use, I can screw wherever I want and never hit the vapor barrier. Schwörerhaus even has, unlike all others, a composite panel on the outside with very high load-bearing capacity under the plaster carrier.
How is it intended at Schwabenhaus, for example? Technically, this provider is already disqualified because of this one thing, or is that, as said, wrong?
Best regards to all.
Our names are Florian and Stefanie, both in their mid-40s. We have already built two houses in our lives, but solidly constructed. The third one is now coming up, into which we will move and want to sell the other two. According to our dream (which we could not realize before due to restrictive development plans), it should be a house in the Alpine chalet style, with 1.25m roof overhangs, plastered below, wood-clad above, small divided windows, etc., standing on a dream hillside property with a view.
Now it's about the different construction methods of timber frame houses. I have dealt intensively with all possible manufacturers and their wall constructions. I have not really found anything about the practice following the construction through research, and since you can probably not rely 100% on the distributors, all of whom claim to have the best wall system in the universe, I would like to raise a question here regarding prefabricated construction.
Providers like Schwabenhaus still sometimes use wall constructions today that "only" have 12mm drywall on the outside as well as inside. As a not quite inexperienced craftsman, I ask: How do you properly attach something in such houses without deliberately having to hit the stud cavity?
It is clear that drywall also has load-bearing properties, especially with drywall anchors. But: Whenever I use one, I pierce the vapor barrier that follows immediately after on all providers. That is a huge disadvantage, isn't it, or am I seeing something wrong here?
Bien-Zenker, for example, takes a different approach; they install Knauf Hardboard inside, which I already know from my own experience. It is like concrete; I would even categorize it as having better load-bearing capacity than brick. Likewise, Schwörerhaus (or others) install a wood-based panel behind the drywall layer inside, which is also highly load-bearing. The total thickness is always in the range of 12.5+18mm, so about 30mm, and you can attach quite a bit with 5-6x30mm wood screws. With their precise use, I can screw wherever I want and never hit the vapor barrier. Schwörerhaus even has, unlike all others, a composite panel on the outside with very high load-bearing capacity under the plaster carrier.
How is it intended at Schwabenhaus, for example? Technically, this provider is already disqualified because of this one thing, or is that, as said, wrong?
Best regards to all.