Hi Guys,
Just hoping for a bit of advice or comments from your previous experiences.
We're quite far into building our house; they've actually finished the plaster inside the house and starting to tiling etc.
One thing we noticed on the walls upon entering the front door, they've done plasterboard instead of actual plaster.
The main issue I have with plasterboard is that hollow sound/feel if you ever bump or knock it. So my preference would always be for the more solid feeling/sounding wet plaster.
When I asked the site supervisor about it he said it was to prevent cracking. The way he explained it was that because it's a two storey height wall (we have a high void at the entrance of our house), if they were to do regular plaster it would have to go over the first floor slab, which would cause the plaster to crack because of expansion/contraction from heating/cooling. By doing plasterboard, there's a lower chance of cracking down the track. Although he reckons we still may get cracking with plasterboard.
Whilst what he does make sense, we visited my aunt's place which has a similar entrance but the builder did plaster. They do have very fine hairline cracks, but you can only see if you're looking for it.
The drawings actually show it should've been wet plaster, so we're leaning towards insisting it be redone in wet plaster unless we get a convincing argument against.
(We feel bad because it's a big wall to have to redo and if we'd noticed earlier it may have been easier to re-do).
What are people's thoughts?
Thanks in advance.