/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>2000000
Splinters and fair prices ftw

>>2000000
Paper and plastic houses are now good thanks to the get

>>2000000
yikes

>>2000000
>the smell of a semi trailer full of this shit

>>2000000
proof this is the ultimate engineered building material of the future

>>2000000
slash open the inside of your palm cause you were an autist and didn't knock off the edge after the cut get...

It's like 20 bucks a fucking sheet right now get

>>2000000
so many zeroes :O

>>2000000
Kek lost have a shot of black and some crab meat on me

>>2000078
More than that

>>2000045
What a Pussy.....sheeez

>>2000000
Is it just me, or does 2 million sound too small for the number of total posts on this board? When was it founded?

>>2000156
2011 kek

>>2000156
Thats a big number. It was almost unheard of before Obama.

>>2000156
>>2000169
Averages to 600 posts on er day or so, which I guess sounds accurate.

>>2000078
More like almost 30.

>>2000000
nice get
i'll be seeing this thread for a few weeks

>>2000040
>the smell of a house under construction with OSB sawdust everywhere just after a rainstorm

spent a lot of time at my parents house as it was being built when i was a kid and 20 years later i still get flashbacks when that smell hits.

>>2000000
yuropoors eternally BTFO. show's over guys, american building is superior.

>>2000045
>he doesn't wear gloves when working with plywood

what are you, a casual?

>>2000279
>>2000045
>imagine not having 3 mm of dead skin on hands to naturally protect hands

>>2000000

>>2000000
Based and new world pilled

YUROPOORS ETERNALLY BTFO

>>2000000

7/16" @ $26 a sheet

2x4x8 stud grade @ $5 each

You literally need another 30 year bank note to build a two car detached garage at this point

>>2000000
OSB! OSB! OSB! OSB!

Mods please sticky

>>2000000
all hail based paper mache

OSB really is good stuff and absolutely is the perfect material for lots of things.

>>2000246
cute cate

I love OSB
Get big scraps of it for free and use it to build temporary shit outdoors, couple seasons later clean it up with a shovel. Very convenient.

>>2000279
Nah, i just don't give a fuck and don't like the "weird grip" you get in gloves handling OSB. Forgot to check the edge for those nasty shiv like splinters that one time, it was not pleasant.

>>2000000
Congratulations, you got a get on one of the slowest boards on ferchonz.

>>2000000
i love osb.
but i wouldn't build the outside walls of my house with it because i'm not retarded.

>>2000487
if you have a roof with proper overhang its a non issue
the roof is supposed to keep the water off your siding

>>2000000
I ain't even mad, will be building insulated and heated shed out of this soon, perfect solutions for sub par buildings

>>2000489
this understanding of basic things like how rain works is indicative of how truly retarded americans are and completely explains their behaviour lol

>>2000210
600 too many

>>2000042
>OSB
Weird way to spell hemp fiberboard.

>>2000174
Once upon a time we hit 6 million - the world's current high score

>>2000000

European here. I bow to our new American OSB overlords.

>>2000000
lame

>>2000000
>those repeating digits

>>2000000

>OSB NO! YOU CAN'T BE WALLS!

>OSB YES!
>OSB ALWAYS YES!

>>2001459
How have things come to this?

>>2000156
I feel ya, like 1/4 of those posts must be mine

>>2001459
WHAT THE FUCK

>>2000000
This thread means there can never be a Europoor thread asking about American building material quality ever again.

>>2000000

>>2000000
nice

Why the fuck is this shit so expensive right now, its fucking glue and wood chips.

REMINDER: osb

>>2001467
my guess is good timber prices are going up

>>2000693
Nah mate, more like this.

Just seeing ch*pboard makes me furious

>>2001999
I'm old enough to remember the building boom of the early 2000's, back then it was like $4 a sheet and even cheaper in bulk purchase.

>>2002091
This. I am outraged by the rapid inflation in OSB, wiring, and light fixtures.

>>2001459
and its nailed from the top...I cant even... based and hardworkerpilled

>>2002257

>>2000247
osb first came to market in 2010. What you're getting flashbacks from is partical board, which looks similar, but isn't as strong and more flammable due to the construction methods at the time.

>>2002549
Are you trolling?

>>2000279
Neesd gloves to handle plywood, what a casual

>>2001467
What, do you hate capitalism or something

EMBRACE THE FUTURE

>>2002916
Shit, forgot to post the picture

>>2002915
Uh, yeah I do.

>>2000000
FUCKING CHECKED

Reminder to ride this win to the bumplimit.

>>2000078
Lol its 70 bucks a sheet here in canadstan

UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCEUNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCEUNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCEUNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE

>>2000000
A fucking mod did this

>>2000326
Why?? Wtf

>>2004538
>$70 for wood chips and glue in the land of trees and moose.
fucking how?

>>2002077
What is this, a brick for ants?

>>2004531

12? I cringe when I see them erecting 5 floor OSB complexes

>>2006631
Liberals can't govern

How can Yuros even compete? This is why you can't afford to buy.

>>2007656
>less inexpensive
isn't that a double negative?
does not that equate to "more expensive"?

>>2007664
I don't want none of that gobbledygook

>>2000156
its a slow board

>>2002549
lolwut?

>>2002917
I did this in june becauae the cupboards werent gunna be ready for months due to covid so i made it so it was usable in the mean time

>>2000326
>work with firefighters
>they do sub contract work on the side
>they tell me if they are ever at a fire and see this they order everyone out and basically let it burn down because its so flammable and toxic due to the glue they use.
Youre living in a matchbox ready to blow

>>2001467
>he thinks its real

>>2002132
>he doesnt steal his wiring from construction sites and charge regular prices to his customers
ngmi

>>2006631
he's lying

>>2007823
https://www.weyerhaeuser.com/woodproducts/engineered-lumber/timberstrand-lsl/

>>2001527
I 2nd this.

Hello!

>>2000279
OSB is not plywood

>>2007664
yes, think of the time & effort to create the adult lego

>>2004531
At least the one on the pic uses plywood, not osb

>>2001527
y, osb is great, for boarding up windows

Like my new parquet

>>2010254

That's the work of a godless heathen

>>2010275
Its art

>>2000000

>mfw

>>2010254

Dangerous madneess right there.

>>2006631
Ya idk central Ontario they are like $30/sheet, probably gets pricy if you're up in bumfuck nowhere where your stuck paying the local guy what he wants unless you want to drive 6 hours to a homedepot

>>2000341
A missed opportunity to have the ball spell USA, YMCA-style

holly shit just checked lowes, its going to the moon.

> $30.85
BUY 64 GET 10% OFF
7/16-in x 4-ft x 8-ft OSB Sheathing
Item #12212Model #646214

>>2011360
BUY BUY BUY!

>>2000441
>seething plywood lover

>>2011420
Imagine the smell

>>2001467
>>2001459
>>2000326
>>2000000

>>2000000

OSB is pretty shit, but I have been using that advantech shit for replacing subfloor in my living room, and even though it looks like OSB, it is wayyyy different. Smooth, no chipping, way heavier and way stronger. Feels even stiffer that some nice plywood. Really good shit.

INB4... I am not Matt Risinger

>>2012050
What are you going to do for content when your house is done Matt? Or are you just going to build it forever.

>>2000000
cheked and OSB pilled

>>2002915
blaming free-trade capitalism on things jews do who work with the government and push for regulations

OSBump

>>2012050
so Matt, how much did it cost for 2 layers of the advantech?

>>2013342
why does this look edible

>>2014915
Because those are actually really big granola bars.

>>2000000
WHAT TIME LINE IS THIS???

>>2013342
because it is

>>2000000
fucking checked

>>2000210
Sounds too high, if anything.

>>2000000
What the hell is this. Welp it's truth now.

>>2000000
checked

>>2011420
Gamestop? That's just the beginning... Oh, and as for the little expert's plan here, Mexicans have no restrictions. They'll find his worksite and make him squeal! I know a journeyman when I see one, and -

>>2014990
Duh, thats how all granola bars are before they chop them up and package them. They're pretty big when grown to a fully mature state.

Severely triggered by this thread.

>>2000000

>>2001459
>>2001467
>>2002257
eat shit.

>>2004531
>>2007122
>>2009036
They using new engineered wood memes bro
>i beam with osb middle, sold top bottoms
Green memes will kill the sold wood.

>>2002549
it's been invented since 1963 you dumb fuck

>>2000000
OSB incel finally had sexes

>>2002549
>osb first came to market in 2010
are you retarded?

>>2007819
They must be a volunteer department or some other no-fucks-given department as all major departments will send search FFs in regardless of building materials, assuming the entire building isn't burnt down yet. If anything they're not necessarily concerned about the glue and binders from OSB/plywood being a toxicity issue (remember: FFs have SCBAs/air cylinders), however those kinds of structural pieces tend to fail first because of that glue/binder melting apart so that could alter their plans to enter depending on involvement.

>>2000000
>get
>>2000246
>>2000279
>>2000413
>>2002257
>>2002346
>>2002917
>>2004657
>>2016958
Imagine this thread but with socks on

>>2000000
what a gettt

>>2000078
Now I don't feel so bad spending $36 on half inch ply, thanks

>>2002917
whoa kinda actually like that wth is there something wrong with me?

>>2017918
The rule is if its been burning more than 7 minutes, nobodys going on the roof, and if nobodys going on the roof nobodys ventilating the building. They will send SnR teams in if people are inside regardless though, unless the buildings visibly going to collapse, other than that its surround and drown.

>>2000000

>tfw got 80 full sheets of 3/4" thick OSB plywood for free from a warehouse

I made at least 2400, assuming they go for 30 bucks (no idea sine i could not see how much they would cost without a tongue and groove)

feelsgood

page 10? not yet you don't

>>2020576
Bles u t. /lit/

I remember watching the neighborhood kids try and make bike ramps layering this and drywall
>It's flat and big enough, should work right?

>>2000000

E P I C

>>2000000
The OSB GET must continue. Send it to the moon.

This is in Spain

>>2022748
>>2022750
How can Americans even compete?

>>2000000

I don't understand the hate OSB gets on /diy/.

OSB is stronger than plywood in structural applications. Yes it can de-laminate and weaken with moisture, but so can any plywood that you would normally use otherwise. As long as a proper moisture barrier is applied over it and you have half-decent labor installing it, it will last just as long as plywood. Plywood also warps much easier than OSB, making it harder to work with than OSB.

In general, for general roofing applications or high moisture, use treated plywood at least 5/8" thick. Otherwise, for shear walls and diaphragms, OSB is stronger per inch of thickness.

t. structural engineer.

>>2023384
>arguing the finer points of using one kind of wood panel vs another for construction


Do americans really?

>>2023384
Stop it. Stop making sense.

>>2001356
Based fuck nigger jannies

>>2023384
probably because its misused alot, or done wrong by i.e. missing the barrier, but because its cheap its everywhere, and results are abonimations such as >>2000326 >>2001459

it has it uses, but you dont need to over do it, even europeans use it alot despite them memeing the burgers here, but mainly for interior cladding of non-bearing walls, or floors, sometimes outer walls with barriers (or without, and you know directly that some dipshit made that themselves)

>>2000000
>its a fine art medium now
long live osb

>>2023762
Those "abominations" aren't even really terrible at all. Both of them would not be exposed once construction is done. Also:

- The roof I-joists shown use OSB webs for the same reasons I described - in that it is stronger per inch of thickness. you can also get these i-joists treated for fire resistance if you are want to argue the point of them being "more flammable" than normal wood joists
- The Wall studs in that example are actually LSL (laminated strand lumber), not OSB. Similar product, but stronger for certain use cases. This stuff is used for engineered studs that can span large heights of 13-17 feet for high-ceiling applications that are popular in larger homes. you would not be able to get the same strength or deflection for an exterior wall with normal lumber at those heights.

>>2000000
Posting in this epic thread.

Love me some OSB. Back in 2014'ish I made an OSB bedroom-set based on the industrial trends at the time. The set included a height-adjustable entertainment console, height-adjustable desk, twin bed frame, night-stand, rolling clothes-rack and a multi-use side-table out of the scraps. Really a unique set, nothing quite like it.

Almost entirely OSB with one very nice piece of maple plywood and then doused in polyurethane. I will say that the polyurethane coating has proved to be surprisingly resilient and a nicely sanded piece of OSB is kind of a cool look. I remember buying full 4x8 sheets of OSB for like $7-$13 each, which made for a very cheap build. Planned it all out in Sketchup. Didn't know anything about construction at the time so my dad helped me rip everything down and went at it with a sander, a brad-gun, and a bunch of glue. Very interesting looking back at my work after becoming a finish carpenter several years later... sometimes our past selves can be kind of surprising.

The clothes-rack featured a custom, copper pipe hook-set along with polished iron pipe (Dad cut the pipe and welded it for me); probably my favorite piece. For the height-adjustable desk and console I used aluminum T-slot bars on each side along with a high-extension jack underneath. My plan was to use a drill to raise and lower the jack, but in the end the desk was a little too heavy, a little off-balance and subsequently didn't have the proper support for that particular function; although I could still raise and lower it manually (which was fine).

Fast forward to 2020 and I've pulled it out of storage. The whole set has held up quite well over the years; I am still quite pleased with it. Looking forward to the modifications I can make. Currently eyeing high-end contact paper you can buy on Amazon, might be kind of cool to mess with that stuff and I think it would work well on OSB.

That's my contribution. I'm done rambling now.

>>2024041
>stronger per inch of thickness
For how long?
We know how wood changes over time (it doesn't change much if kept dry), but do we know what happens to whatever adhesive blend is being used in that particular piece of OSB? Will it turn brittle? Will it lose its adhesive strength? Would you gamble your roof on it?

>>2024270
Pics? Sounds neat. Could sell it to some NYC hipsters.

>>2000000
I just don't like it as a material. Heavy, weak, and susceptible to moisture.

>>2000042
more like underengineered neckshitting garbterial

>>2000133
newb here
what are the two sources of these memes? like the exact posts? i understand that imitation crab meat and buried steelcontainers or something???

>>2000156
2 million? do you understand how hard it was to reach 3 million posts? 4 million posts taked years with a full country's shitposting army behind it. this board will never reach 5 million posts. who cares about 6 million posts anyway

>>2018156
That's why you wear shoes inside, dumdum

>>2000000
Absolutely unfathomably based

>>2000078
>Need to buy some Maple boards to build 4 12x25 shelves
>100 fucking dollars
When will our suffering end?

>>2025174
>wearing shoes inside so you can walk on your floor made of OSB
absolutely american

>>2025779
Like the founding fathers intended

Why is this thread on page 8?

>>2027225
Not enough true believers

>>2025781
This. Fuck Germany.

>>2028437
even as a bong I have to say based

>>2029687
That's pretty neat

So why is ZIP better than OSB? Whats the Yuropoor approved alternative? Just cob everything?

>>2032066
>So why is ZIP better than OSB?
More retard proof it seems.
And what is easier: wrap tar paper or tyvek with tapes and joints and shit, or just stick a tape and paint the bottom of the sheet?

>>2000000
based korean shed builder

>>2022748
Baby in there with that offgassing and a window that doesn't look like it even opens

>>2007108
what is this, a joke for reddit?

>>2000000

LIVE, DAMN YOU!

>>2032606
Based

toasting in an epic bread

I’d suck cocks for some 2x6’s and stack of OSB at this point

I’m tired of this bullshit pandemic.
Bullshit prices and inventory for wood chips and glue

>>2037650
It isn't going to get better. They have to "reset capitalism"

Love this thread. OSB is ugly as shit and I would never use it in a visible application but I must pay my respects

>>2032066
Has the moisture barrier built in so no fucking around with house wrap. Much more immune to the elements in my experience. And I find it easier to handle (esp the advantech subfloor)

>>2010254
woah

OSB is art!

>>2012153
>free-trade capitalism

>>2038018

I don't want this ride to end

>>2038018
Pretty cool ngl

how is this thread still around

>>2041259
People love OSB

what thickness of osb should I use for my basement subfloor? 1/2 or 5/8? why does menards not have tongue and groove in stock fuck

>>2000000
god. OSB has never been so cool

>>2039330
I believe that is called a torus, not a hyper loop.

>>2041832
3/4 if you want a real subfloor, 1/2 if you just need some thing that you can walk on and it won’t break

>>2041259
You're joking?

>>2020681
>those shelf edges
is this OSB veneer? amazing

>>2002549
You just lost your internet privilege's.

>>2000078
God I was laughing at that guy on YouTube making his house out of steel but it's cheap compared to shitwood.

>>2023384
I dislike its lower stiffness compared to ply

>>2002549
no

>>2023384
OSB is actually good for roofing if you're not in a temperate climate. When you have a leak with traditional plywood you can rot and de-lamininate the entire sheet where as OSB will have a much smaller and circular water spot that you can cut out and replace. Cant tell yiu how many times I've seen multiple sheets of ply rotted because there was a leak near the top ofcthe roof.

201st for osb