Re:Wikihouse: Open-Source Houses
by foroak on Tuesday January 09, 2024 @08:20PM
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In a stick frame building, everything still gets clad with sheathing (plywood) and subfloor (thicker tongue and groove plywood).
Structural insulated panels (plywood/foam sandwiches) have been around since the 70s. They're a useful building technology.
There's no way they can provide an equivalent amount of product to a SIP cheaper. They're operating at small scale, and CNC machining everything which is expensive. The math ain't mathin'.
Structural insulated panels (plywood/foam sandwiches) have been around since the 70s. They're a useful building technology.
There's no way they can provide an equivalent amount of product to a SIP cheaper. They're operating at small scale, and CNC machining everything which is expensive. The math ain't mathin'.