"Drywall"

and because it works and has been since it was invented

Yeah, commonly known as the real world, something I suspect Mr Kinsey isn't all that familiar with.

Since when has the building industry worked to the nearest millimetre? To the nearest 100 millimetres more likely.

Easier to screw things into plasterboard, you just need the right attachments or, alternatively, ensure you're screwing into a wall stud.

Plenty of drywall screw attachments to choose from as well as drywall toggle cavity fasteners.

Your problem is a lack of real world experience. Only you can fix that!

You omitted *totally unsuited to task*.

Chipboard does. You need to get out more.

You cover up the screw heads. How are you going to get at them or get a screwdriver into the (usually phillips head) recess? What about corrosion of the screw shank?

Ah, you seem to be lacking in practical realities.

Just replace the plasterboard sheet as part of the repair/rebuild. It isn't hard.

I know a couple who do building restoration work back in my home state.

Drywall is a panel made of gypsum plaster pressed between two thick sheets of paper. It is used to make interior walls and ceilings. Drywall construction became prevalent as a speedier alternative to traditional lath and plaster.

Sheetrock is a trademark for drywall made by the US Gypsum company

Don't be absurd, an American cannot possibly run.

I prefer to get what I ask for, not something that's traditional. Would you buy a traditional cuckoo clock that couldn't keep the correct time?

There's a the problem, it's not dryWALL if it's on the ceiling!

But nothing like as good as wood.

I've managed to never do so, maybe you should be more careful?

Only house fires I know of are:

My friend when I was at school set fire to a chip pan by forgetting it as on, and simply carried it outside.

My neighbour's roof caught fire because the incoming electricity feed (going into the attic!) came loose from it's mounting and shorted. 6 months after I had warned him it was loose and he said "not my problem, it's up to the electricity board". He lost his whole roof, including many family photos stored up there, and had builders repairing it on the insurance for a couple of months, while he rented another place, also at their expense. I was astonished that the fire service had no ability to turn off the power, and also wouldn't use their hoses without turning it off (they could have just earthed them). 30 minutes was wasted waiting in the middle of the night for the electricity board to come out and turn it off. Not sure who ended up paying. He claimed everything from the insurance, but if I was the insurance company, the electric board and the fire service would have been in big trouble.

Which makes a f****ng mess. Removing plasterboard (especially if the builder has never heard of screws and still uses nails) causes huge amounts of powder everywhere.

Do you like replacing two things instead of one?

ROTFPMSL!

On 5/16/2020 7:51 AM, Xeno wrote: ...

You'd be hard pressed to find anybody nailing in the US these days...and I suspect that's true virtually everywhere. W/ metal studs, there's no choice.

Very little on a percentage basis is glued...I don't recall that I've ever seen it on walls; a rare few ceilings.

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"Ancient" in what sort of time frame? 100 years? Still the routine way then; gypsum board was in its infancy...the house here was all lath & plaster until redid to add insulation to exterior walls in late '70s; put drywall up instead of going back. Virtually all ceilings/interior walls are still original plaster.

I can call a half-dozen here in a town of under 30K population that are quite good...they keep busy with remodels and repair work and the occasional new construction that wants the original.

Comparatively, it is time-consuming which large part of why it has been replaced -- labor costs are the easiest thing to trim to bring building costs down. A more time-efficient adequate solution will get the bid in the majority of cases.

But, it's surprising to the non-experienced just how fast they can go...but not as fast as the sheetrock crew can get from bare studs to finished surface.

Again...what "applications" would those be???

Only a boneheaded mistake. What you gonna' do with the rough paper backside with the seam around the edge where the paper covers the edge of the finish paper wrapped around the edge?

Even if putting it up as base for paneling or the like fastening the beveled edge against the wall will cause dimples...and the backside paper tears comparatively badly when penetrated w/ the screw and they're set...

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