Hi, I'm bricking up two openings in my external house wall: Below a window (8 new courses x 10 bricks wide) Replacing an external door with a window at normal sill height. It's a timber frame bungalow so I'm now making the frames to make good the internal walls. Do I have to use marine ply for the frame sheets (that will face the wall cavity) or can I use normal ply? I'll be covering the plywood with a breathable membrane so in theory it shouldn't get damp. It looks like the existing timber frame sheets are about 8 mm ply if that makes any difference. Thanks
Thanks Chippie ... so not just any old plywood then. I'll have a phone around the local builders merchants tomorrow to see what they stock
WPB, Marine ply is a strange thing. the last time I bought some it was about £140.00 a sheet for the cheapest but if it was Lloyds of London rated (I think it was Lloyds, I could be wrong) it was over £500.00 for an 8 by 4! This was about ten years ago. Its all down to the glue I think??