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I remember being a kid and watching a few films where people fall over and put holes in the walls; I was so confused. I didn’t understand how people could put holes in bricks using their arms and legs.
thats just drywall. its shit but a lot of cheap builds use it.
Wait... What do you use to cover your (non stone) walls??? Is there some sort of beadboard or shiplap supremacy group I've never heard of?
yeah every place I lived in in Europe had brick walls for every wall
sheetrock with plaster on top
God I fucking hate plaster. Granted, my house uses oldish-fashioned metal lath and plaster, but it's such a ball ache. I wish it had been built with just drywall so I could use stud finders and shitty drywall anchors. Instead it's all fuckass toggle bolts and "use this giant magnet to find the stupid screw that attaches the stupid lath to the stupid stud." Ugh.
I have a relative that had these, he recently upgraded to drywall so he could easily make modifications.
sheetrock is literally a brand of drywall
Why would you have non stone walls?
Because there are earthquakes where I live literally all the time.
Interesting, I do live on a fault line (eger graben) and while the earthquakes are frequently here they are barely noticeable, they just sound like a loud car. Are the earthquakes wearing down the stone where you live, and what do you use for walls instead that can withstand bigger earthquakes?