Wall partition composition

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reeves1985

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Just bought a house and started doing some work to it.

One of the internal partition walls between box room and stairs has got my mind going as I've never come across it before.

I was about to start taking it down to pinch a few inches of room.

The wall seems to be made form 50-60mm of pure solid plaster with horizontal straw running through it.

Its sat on a timber but runs upto the loft and its notched and joists sat on it.

I assume its lime but its pinkish and is soft as s**t.

Theres nothing else in it all the way through.

These no timber no nothing.

Anybody shed any light on it
 
reeves1985 said:
Just bought a house and started doing some work to it.

One of the internal partition walls between box room and stairs has got my mind going as I've never come across it before.

I was about to start taking it down to pinch a few inches of room.

The wall seems to be made form 50-60mm of pure solid plaster with horizontal straw running through it.

Its sat on a timber but runs upto the loft and its notched and joists sat on it.

I assume its lime but its pinkish and is soft as s**t.

Theres nothing else in it all the way through.

These no timber no nothing.

Anybody shed any light on it
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Was it built in 80s or early 90s ?
 
theshed said:
It's called stramit partition. All stuck together then skimmed.
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It's not stramit

There's a load of houses and bungalows round my way built with that shite

All I can describe it as is a solid block of pinkish gypsum/lime with straw going horizontally

It's keyed both sides with a comb so looks like what ever it is has been done on site at time of build
 
It's soft as well like a dry modern backing like bonding.

You can push a screwdriver through it if you wiggle it enough.

I'll get a picture tomorrow.


I initially thought it was just brick with roughing in it

But after playing with it it's not and it's thinner than brick
 
Wall partition composition
Wall partition composition


As promised heres what I'm talking about.

That's just solid and the straw running through it
 
MakeItSmooth said:
That keying looks exactly regular, so (to my eyes, at least), I would guess it is a pre-manufactured panel of some sort.
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Yes that's the first thing I noticed it doesn't look as though they keying has been done on site as it is too uniform.

Also it I've been roughed on top of that keying before brining skimmed/finished.

Completely got me this one
 
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