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Default How can you tell if your walls are plaster or sheetrock-drywall?

On Sep 24, 9:11*pm, jim evans wrote:
I have never lived in a house with plaster walls. *A friend asked me
how you tell if your walls are plaster or drywall. *How do you tell?


drywall is much softer than plaster....an ice pick (or a push pin) can
easily be pushed into drywall.