Pioneering Use of Sheetrock as Exterior Material
A reader performs a little citizen journalism in documenting this bit of shoddy workmanship on Madison between Bedford and Nostrand. I’ve seen a few sheets of poorly installed and finished sheetrock in my time, but this takes the cake, man. The use of this product that hates water on an exterior, even for two minutes,…
A reader performs a little citizen journalism in documenting this bit of shoddy workmanship on Madison between Bedford and Nostrand.
I’ve seen a few sheets of poorly installed and finished sheetrock in my time, but this takes the cake, man. The use of this product that hates water on an exterior, even for two minutes, is totally outrageous. They didn’t even use greenboard!
Looks to us like somebody forgot a window!
UPDATE: We added a close-up photo below.
Also, if you look closely at these shots, you can already see a fair amount of water damage around the cut edges of the sheetrock. Given sheetrock propensity to produce mold once it has become wet, is there any that this building is not going to be a hot mess of epic propotions once it is completed?
There are a set of houses also on Nostrand in the same general vicinity (Monroe, Madison, Greene area) that my son calls “the cardboard houses” because not only are they being put together out of sheetrock, it is poorly hung with edges that aren’t flush almost like a child constructed it using the blunt nosed scissors to cut out the sections.
I’ve been hoping you’d end up talking about these houses, just because the construction is so poor and once again you haven’t let me down!
Hope you like painting your wood siding every few years.
There is a reason the vinyl and aluminum siding industries exist.
We added a close-up of the material in question. Does that help clarify what it is?
Continuing my challenge.
How can this be saved?
Obviously Sheetrock is not a good underlay for an exterior wall, but what else could be done to make this place work?
I’m actually partial to some sort of wood siding. After replacing the sheetrock with something waterproof and more structural, I’d use dark wood siding. I liked the Warren street house that was discussed some months back where the boards varied in width.
That is not hardibacker. too large and no writing on it. this restores my faith that this so called sophisticated city is full of numb nuts like every where else.
That or they are completely insane.
Are we 100% sure that’s not hardiboard? James Hardie concrete board looks a lot like sheetrock when it’s up on walls. I’ll bet this is a backerboard that they will be putting shingles or some other exterior cladding on top of later. I’ll also bet that they will cut a hole for the other window eventually.
Do they still make tarpaper? That would be an appropriate siding material for dreck like this–instant shack!