The main advantages of dry lining relate to the speed of installation and lower imposed water loadings on a building.
Other advantages include the fact that the use of lightweight partitions will result in a lighter building with consequent benefits in the specification of the foundations, together with greater flexibility in designing and changing the internal shape of the house as a family's needs change. The lightweight nature of the partitions also allows far greater flexibility in the design of upper floor layouts, where a conventional brick or block partition may prove out of the question on most types of floor.
The use of dry lining systems also gives the SelfBuilder flexibility in the choice of insulation materials, which may not be available with conventional building methods. In timber frame, dry lining is implicitly the preferred method of building.
Because of the pre-finished nature of most board systems, drylining can often be undertaken by SelfBuilder himself, thus offering potential savings in the overall cost of the build.
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