let's go around here you can't buy plasterboard in new zealand
well imagine if instead of plasterboard you could grab a bottle like this
crush it into little bitty pieces and turn it into something like this that could then
be used as an interior lining in your house well that is what this exciting episode is all about
if you're trying to build in new zealand or you want to build in new zealand you'll be very
familiar with the problem that we have in this country right now and that is plasterboard you
you basically can't get it we call plasterboard jib in new zealand that's like the brand name
and i made a video about this a couple episodes back the short version is
they have 95 of the market share and their lead times were originally pushed out to july
now it's pushed out to september i'm hearing people have to wait until january to get jib board
so what do you do right well you start looking at alternatives now these are all very new to me and
i thought it would be interesting to talk about them now this one here is called safeboard very
new product here in new zealand anywhere and it's made up of tetra packs they basically got a whole
bunch of old tetra packs and plastics and heated it up and molded it together and in this case they
put the paper on the back but to make something a bit more similar to plasterboard they've got
this other option where they put the paper on the front as well now to me it's very rigid
they say you cut it with a circular saw or a track saw so with that that adds a lot of labor costs
kind of like plywood right you know you have to cut every little thing you can't just score
and snap it like you can jib board and despite the fact that they've got a fairly smooth surface here
smoother than i thought it would be you still have bumps which means you have to skim coat
the whole thing skim coat is just like a thin layer of plaster over the whole wall so more
labor costs for the builder more labor costs for the plasterer now as for price i think it's around
about 55 a standard sheet compared to jib which is between 25 and 30 dollars a standard sheet
it's quite expensive but in a market where you can't even buy jib i think a lot of people will
pay double the price if it means their job can continue now the other product that i've been
looking at is magnum board it's basically a magnesium oxide board magnesium oxide is
something that is mined and it's being compressed into this and what you're left with is something
similar to compressed concrete board so you cut it in the same way i think it has the same fine
dust particles but apparently what it omits is not as harmful i don't know either way it's very
rigid and cold even strange and the product is 68 dollars a sheep roughly but just like safe board
you can get it so there are these alternative options at the moment if you're being held up
by not being able to buy your board in new zealand let's have a closer look shall we
don't worry this sheet is like a quarter sheet it was the only sheet i could find
and it's basically sold to do patches when you um when you
make a hole in the wall or something but let's use it to compare the waves
german saveboard is very similar when you compare equal sample sizes interesting
save board jessica oh yes it's good to look at these samples
what do you think it's interesting huh yeah stuff is this the um the jib jib replacement the jib
alternative is probably the better term it's not a complete replacement but it's a viable option
because of how dire the plasterboard situation is what's this little divot um that's a tapered edge
very similar to to this oh is that jab yeah yeah so if you i'm holding gold
so if you hold two tapered edges together like that it allows the joint to be plastered
so you don't see the drawing ah okay so and the join plastering doesn't stick out
give them to me um now that i see them side by side that's definitely a heck of a lot smoother
yeah not that i think there's any issue with that i mean compared to our current walls which are
bumpy as i mean my expectations aren't too high one of my main concerns though that the neighbor
actually brought up was that is this fire proof it's about as fireproof as like plywood or mdf
you know so not really is jib fireproof it's more fireproof and you can get a fire rated jib and i
think magnum ball is the same you can get like a fire rated version of it okay interesting because
if we're gonna line a master bedroom where we're sleeping no that's a concern of mine as well yeah
yeah although then you think about it our house is built out of timber framing we have timber
cladding everything is timber in our house our floor's timber so what you're saying is our house
is very flammable we're living a fire all right that's a great thought i sleep well tonight um
and what what's this for then right so this is uh made up of plastic bottles and it's exposed so if
you want that look um it's very particular look i don't know who is lining up to have that look
but if you want that look i can see that i think i saw a picture okay sorry so this is still being
used as a jib replacement but is that what it's actually designed for um i don't think they had
gym in mind i think it was just like we want to save the environment and use recyclable materials
instead of you know using my own materials that's a that's a question for same board like not us
and then this stuff um the magnum board this is the stuff that you'd see on the wall the
same side as the sticker huh okay if you'd handed this to me and not told me what it was
yeah i would have assumed it was a tile totally it fit it feels like a stock you could shatter it
yeah yeah i feel like let's have this instinct kind of scope i won't wait we should we'll see
if it shows oh can we why not well hold on but then we won't have a sample anymore huh
so we've got heaps of samples all right that's what we're doing this feels very irresponsible
i can't even hear you these are too big for my little head well these are just
the right size for my big head all right this is probably what oh i just thought
i was gonna like oh i thought i was just gonna karate kid oh yeah that was terrible
well that's real that's interesting that's really similar to um
to cement board see all the fibers sticking out i thought we were just i'm doing this for fun
but actually this is quite quite interesting it is interesting this is like that youtube
channel where they just cut things in half yeah all right safe board now ah
okay
well done
it really is like ripping apart a cable box well yeah
it does what it says on the packet it's it's tetrapack yeah what's it glued together with
just the heat and i think a bit of um polyethylene is that toxic or is that
i might be wrong about that you don't call it isn't that i mean it just seems that you
can't really get around something unhealthy in building materials yeah well there you go
there you go we won't do that with the jib because you could probably sell that for a hundred dollars
another consideration is how you fix the material like this for instance it comes
with all the hassles of a cement fiberboard kind of fixing you have to pilot hole it and
then you have to use screws that won't corrode because apparently there is something in here
that can corrode regular screws like these zinc screws that we use on plasterboard
but of course that's not an issue with the safe board i'm told that you can use
screws just like plasterboard i went too far with that screw but that's exactly how plasterboard
performs when you screw it but they also say that with this type of board the stuff that hasn't got
a paper on the front you can kind of use it like plywood and um put a finishing nail in there
yeah there we go i guess you probably want to glue it as well oh [ __ ]
i mean that that holds pretty well ah so i really want to get a hold of a sheet of this
stuff and use it properly and get a sense of what it actually feels like to hold a whole sheet it
sounds like it'll be similar to jib right i'm learning about this you know as i film this so
i'd love to hear your comments i'm sure there's people out there that
have actually used magnum board for one and maybe even safeboard or an equivalent product
let me know in the comments below love to hear your thoughts and let's break some stuff
my journey continues i'm on a journey to create the ideal workshop
this is the ideal garage where i do all the action and this is like the outdoor sanding painting
storage area right now it's a tip but we're going to fix that and the first thing that i want to do
is i want to remove this weird thing here so although it's not creating any problems for me
i do want it gone ultimately and i might as well remove it now
before i paint this wall because as you saw in my last exciting episode i've been painting the roof
there you go jess and i got up there and finished the other side primed it all and we've kind of hit
a roadblock because we need to get a flashing for here when the flashing is here i'll tell
the story about that and why we need it there in the meantime i'm going to knock this thing out
these people hung their clothes in here okay oh look at all the blistering on there
from the moisture not good needless to say mdf is not a outdoor product
and now that it's been outdoors this particular piece
is no longer an indoor product either it's all waterlogged
now the fun part this is under tension so i have a feeling that somebody put this in to support
the roof at some point i'm just gonna cut it out and see what happens don't try this at home
bob's your uncle
this timber's heavy i'm keeping this all right there's very little structure underneath this part
here so the weight of this part of the roof is kind of relying on the butt joint with the timber
behind that so we just have to maybe put a prop under here when we climb on the roof next week
hello hey guys good how are you how was it it was fun how you been going
good come check it out what do you think oh
oh that looks much better
so big thank you to dulux um for supplying this metal primer metal shield primer plus
hp something i'll put that actual name over here so if you want to get something for your
metal garage or metal anything you can find it but i'm yeah i'm very grateful thank you
i need a paint sprayer or something i hope the timelapse was entertaining at least this is brutal
it's not satisfying is it i'm just going from one shade of grey to another
hmm
the garage the garage is looking better already
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what do you reckon like a light green maybe a cream
i don't want it to be quite light but i also want it to match the house eventually as well
this primer really really makes a difference and as you can see i've still got to do this
still got to clean it you know scrub all the dirt off and um then i can get the primer on
well imagine if you can make well imagine if you
well imagine if instead of plasterboard you could grab
all right let's thank you
god