Forum Archive Index - May 2004

[Robin Benson <rob@hammerheadmedia.co.uk>]

Pressure differences across the outer fabric of buildings essentially 
means that an air gap must be correctly employed in the 
design/construction of the building. Any good architect will ensure 
this and other critical issues (bracing against wind and seismic 
movement for example) are addressed intelligently.

Robin

PS. plaster house on timber frame pre 2004 inspect carefully. If it's 
been designed/built correctly there's no reason why it shouldn't last 
its expected lifetime. Watch out especially for  developer-led housing 
(they strip out every last cost and cross every corner they can).

On 13 May 2004, at 03:41, Duncan MacGregor wrote:

>
> Hi guys
>                promise i will never post on this subject ever again.
> Stuff web says 1829 leaky building claims so far.  home owners can 
> lodge a
> claim within ten years of construction woopy doo.    The poor buggers 
> only wrecked
>  any chance of a resale In the future.   the building industry 
> authority in feb announced
> a crackdown on leaky buildings, announcing an amendment to the 
> building code.
> Thirty years of pleading and trying to get them to understand, costing 
> me thousands
> and they still know nothing.  For those people that think its bad 
> construction think
> again.   It boils down to the basic rules of science.  Air tight or 
> leak free wall creates
> a vacuum or Interior of a wall has a higher temperature than the 
> exterior then the
> wall sucks.   Water gets sucked up hill.    Show me one builder that 
> can stop that.
> Treated timber is not the answer let it breathe like they understood 
> 100 years ago.
>  I have in the past hired commercial dehumidifiers to dry out for a 
> whole week homes
> that were dry simply because i used treated wood and refused to use 
> untreated.
> The moisture gauge is 2 spikes that record how long an electrical 
> current takes to
>  pass between..   Treated timber has copper and all sorts of nasties 
> that are impregnated
> which shows up as wet.   Try for thirty years to argue a point with a 
> bunch of idiots
> like i did then tell me .  The very very sad part is they are so dumb 
> nothing changes.
>                              cheers macdunk
> ps plaster house on timber frame pre 2004 run like hell


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