asik

Hi all, has anyone done drywalling (using plasterboards) instead of intonaco and rasatura? It seems to be much much cheaper and quicker than the traditional way, which is sooo attractive with the ravaging credit crunch.

Do they even sell plaster boards in Italy? My builder has never mentioned it (I found out about it online) but, I suspect, it could be because he cannot charge me a lot for drywalling.

giuliana

Yes they do and it is called " carta in gesso". Used quite a lot here in Sicily.

asik

Any idea about the costs?

Lorna at Vicenza

It's actually called cartongesso and is available in different thicknesses and size of boards.

You could probably buy it yourself but a builder will most likely get it at trade price.

I have no idea about prices but you could check out this link ...

http://www.cartongess.it/

giuliana

Sorry it is called cartongesso you are right
My husband who is quite an expert as he is a building constuctor told me this

If you want to do an "abbasamento di soffito" use cartongesso.
For internal walls instead of intonoco e rasatura (in Sicily 24€sqm)
you could use just "gesso" think that it is called plaster that gives you the effect intonacare and rasature together) and costs 13€sqm.

He thinks cartongesso is a bad idea for internal walls ( fragile and hard to hang a picture , not very sound proof etc) and would cost you the same as intonacare. Hope this helps Gill.

37100

I've seen dry-walling used to insulate external walls (a friend had one put in recently) but I've never seen it used internally.

asik

It costs the same to do intonaco! Hmm, I thought it would be much cheaper. Thank you for your replies.

TestaRossa

I have some internal plasterboard walls - some of my upstairs has wooden floors, as in floorboards, so they probably would not support the weight of the more solid walls I'm guessing as part of the floor is unsupported and makes a mezzanine area. Didn't occur to me it was unusual until I read this thread.