Been bugging me for a while, how do they avoid things like water damage while there’s no roofing or protective wrap?
EDIT: I have been enlightened, thanks everyone! From my understanding the TLDR is; They don’t put the damageable stuff in until the shell is good
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You get wet, then you dry it out.
When you build the substructure, main framing and roof, you are completely at the mercy of the elements, so if it rains, then you get wet.
The trick here is that getting wet doesn’t necessarily cause any long term issues. Once cured, concrete wont be damaged at all by a bit of water, brickwork will shrug it off without damages, and even timber (which traditionally will be affected by moisture) well be treated before it is supplied to site trip make it more moisture resistant, and won’t be damaged permanently unless you truly soak it over the long term.
Once you get your house mostly water tight, you can then just dry it out. Get the roof and outer walls up and you will stop most of the water from getting in, and if you leave the walls as open framing then they will dry out pretty quickly.
Once you have a water tight structure that has dried to an appropriate moisture content, then you finish it up by doing all of the work that needs to be kept dry – insulation, electrics, plasterboard and so on.
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