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Prefab Construction in Uruguay

They provide no contact information. Even the whois record is blocked. There is a contact form where you can send them a message but I would like to know who I am sending the message to.

The photos look like frame construction with drywall. Those techniques based on all my research are very uncommon in Uruguay. Has that started to change? I am sure one of the photos features snow! Has that stated to come to Uruguay?

What is the current state of affairs with respect to prefab housing and prefab construction in Uruguay? Are there any good contacts?

I think I found them both on mercadolibre dot com dot uy.

I've seen a few around the campo used as summer holiday homes and there is at least one in Colonia Valdense. They seem to come without the benefits of insulation and are much loved by our local woodpeckers.

Some years ago, I contacted Owens Corning on their website and they only advice was to add insulation in the ceiling, which we have. It consists of styrofoam sheets about 3 to 4 inches thick. Besides, we have vaulted ceilings and we are not willing to take them down to reinsulate.

We also have problems with the penetration of water through the walls where the house has settled. Do you know if Tyvek can be placed over the concrete walls, and if so, on the inside or the outside? Any help you can offer will be greatly appreciated.

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The availability of insulative materials has much improved here since I did my building. Sheets of expanded polystyrene are generally available in barracas as are rolls of fibreglass and/or rockwool. I assume that the lack of home grown insulative products like compressed straw and wool is because of the horror with which most Uruguayos view insulation.

I found supplies of 4 to 6 inch thick "sandwich" metal/polyurethane/metal roofing sheets @ 50 U$S per square meter in MVD and there are contractors who will spray polyurethane foam onto the undersides of existing roofs. Treating 150 sq meters cost me about 1700 U$S. Whether they can retro-treat the insides of existing wall cavities I know not.

One of my old firms used to apply 100 mm/4 inch sheets of expanded polystyrene sheet insulation to the outside of existing buildings but it was deemed necessary to apply stainless mesh over the sheeting and a concrete render coat over that to keep the weather out. Doing the reveals around doors and windows was a pain as was extending the roofs and moving rainwater downpipes (where necessary.) Its much easier to apply the sheeting indoors and cover it with plaster board but that approach results in smaller rooms.

As for settlement cracks, you can't beat a cold steel chisel, a trowel and a bucket of well plasticised sand/cement mixture at 4 to 1. A few drops of washing up liquid will serve as a plasticiser if you can't find the real thing. :-) In the case of porous bricks and stone, a spray coating of clear silicone water repellent works wonders.

So, we really should think about beefing up our ceiling insulation. I suppose we could put up another layer of styrofoam and more lambriz over that.

I designed our floor plan and all our rooms are oversize by UY standards, so putting rockwool between wooden (we call them 2 x 4īs in the US) boards wouldnīt be a problem. I recently read that the current building code in the US is now 2 x 6īs.

Speaking of large rooms, I got a kick of a neighbor boy who, when he saw our master bath, asked my husband why it was so large. "Are you going to have a dance in there?"

Thanks so much!

Kathy

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One tip over sheeting here is to make sure that you actually measure it before putting up the timber framing. Sometimes sheets are 8 feet x 4 feet and sometimes 2.4m x 1.2m. The difference isn't much but not measuring can result in tears before bedtime.

I got a lot of ribbing about the size when building this place. I found the best accepted reply was that I needed the space to swing my sabre properly if the burglars decided to visit. :-)

The original ruin was a 20m x 5m four-rooms-in-line jobbie where going to another room involved a walk outside. Two more rooms (1940s?) had been added on the front resulting in a C shaped outline. I didn't like the idea of compulsory outdoor night-time strolling so, after considering the addition of a passage, I decided to "fill in" the whole C which resulted in a 13m x 5m room costing little more than a passage. My workforce suggested putting a bar at one end and a stage at the other :-)

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