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 Mon 29 Aug 22 13:16 
 Insulation - Manatee
>> NEW BUILD DOGGO!! Have you taken leave of your senses? Every ruddy new build I
>> see is made of wet cheese and yoghurt. They are all very poorly constructed especially
>> the timber framed flavour.

Having just built a timer-frame house I'm interested to know what the shortcomings are.

I can well believe developers save where they can, the best place to do that being where you can't see it.

I think our timber frame is OK, I was impressed with the erectors. We have had a bit of settlement in the frame and I have a couple of doors to adjust upstairs, but nothing dramatic. External cladding is all brick, or render on block. We did consider render on board or mesh which would probably have been fine but we thought the sound insulating effect of masonry would be better. It seems to have worked, we have a moderately trafficked road 14 metres from the front of the house and we hear very little from it. It did add some cost to do this not least because we had to put more structure in in a couple of places to support the cladding at first floor level.

One thing that does seem relatively weak is internal sound insulation, despite sound insulation in the internal stud walls and between downstairs ceiling joists. But the floors upstairs are engineered wood which probably accounts for it.

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