I dont know why they have to lie about it. At $5/8ft board you’d think I paid for the full 1.5. Edit: I mixed up nominal with actual.

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          Furring strips are used in plenty of places, I provide one example where it is used in most residential homes to support drywall.

          Is it not structural if it’s holding ceiling drywall…? So why are people still bickering that walls aren’t structural when they still hold drywall up…?

          If it’s part of a code wall detail, would that not be structural…?

          What’s with the pedantism over something like this to try and save face over not knowing what a furring strip is?

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            No, that’s is not structural.

            Structural means it’s intended to support and transfer loads in a way that cannot be safely removed.

            Since neither the furring strips or drywall are part of a structural requirement, they are not load bearing.

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              Drywall is structural, when used on block walls it helps provide lateral support.

              This is why being pedantic usually backfires.

              Drywall is inherently structural.

              Regardless. It’s furring strips, you want to argue furring strips aren’t used in structural applications? They are used in all three applications the person said they haven’t used them in. They also claimed to be a wood wroker elsewhere, so I don’t see how they would use anything structural anyways….

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                This is why being pedantic usually backfires

                No shit. You’re giving us a master class on it right now.

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      To someone from central europe it’s always weird how houses get build from wood in the US. 😅 I imagine you can hear ~everything happening ~anywhere in the house?

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        it’s extremely common for americans to dismiss apartments because they simply cannot fathom the idea of housing that actually blocks noise, it’s one of the primary arguments i see used against denser housing.

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        I want to say that stick-built homes are really not so fragile as people seem to think. There’s tradeoffs, of course, and ways to build them that make them uncomfortable at best and blatantly unsafe at worst. That being said, they’re pretty sturdy, fairly easy to repair and modify, and relatively quick and cheap to build.

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          I spent a few nights in a straw bale home, wanting to experience what they were like. They are incredibly quiet. Each bale is 1.5 ft of soundproofing/insulation. The loudest part of the house was the clock ticking. The house was heated by appliances such as the refrigerator and water heater. A local monastery built several to rent out for people wanting a tranquil contemplation.