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Re:Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable... by pjerem on Friday October 07, 2022 @03:28AM (#33118373)
In modern european homes, plumbing and wiring is done via "octopuses".

Most of the time, every connection coming from the exterior are coming through the floor in a little room that we can use for storage and from there, everything is dispatched through inner walls which are basically empty (except around bedrooms if you want acoustic isolation). This allows to maintain everything from the inside.

I wouldn't call it a mess but I'll acknowledge I'm talking about modern constructions.

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Re:Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable... by inglor_cz on Friday October 07, 2022 @04:20AM (#33118647)
I was just watching the construction of my new home and they drilled into the brick walls all the time. [0]

None of the walls were empty, all were solid brick with no empty space.

It was quite a mess, though the guys doing the job were very professional and handled the dust disposal very well.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/A3i1ANg

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Re:Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable... by pjerem on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:15AM (#33120192)
wow ! In which country are you ?

I've never seen something like this in France.

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Re:Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable... by inglor_cz on Friday October 07, 2022 @08:27AM (#33120276)
The Czech Republic. I have seen this in all homes under construction that I saw, except for wooden ones.

Granted, it is a small set, N < 10.

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Re:Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable... by pjerem on Friday October 07, 2022 @09:42AM (#33121153)
I didnt noticed that it was a picture of your inner walls. In France, we only use bricks/concrete for the structural walls. The inner walls are almost always "placo" mounted on steel rails. It looks like this : https://www.monsieurpeinture.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/... or https://www.monsieurpeinture.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/...
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Re:Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable... by inglor_cz on Friday October 07, 2022 @09:55AM (#33121360)
Interesting. This is how ceilings are done here, but I haven't seen a private home with walls like that. Offices, yes.

This might be one of the reasons why Czech construction costs are so high. Expensive material everywhere.

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Re:Startup Builds Houses by Pumping Concrete into Inflatable... by toast0 on Friday October 07, 2022 @01:50PM (#33124682)
It looks like 'placo' is what USians call drywall or sheetrock. (pressed gypsum with a paper backing). We'd call those rails studs; low density residential construction is usually wood studs, but I've got a project going with metal studs because with current pricing trends it makes more sense; metal studs also require armoring electrical though, and there's some other issues depending on use case.
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