On Sat, 16 May 2020 07:21:33 +0100, "Jim GM4DHJ ..."
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On 16/05/2020 06:37, dpb wrote:
On 5/16/2020 12:22 AM, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
On 15/05/2020 23:54, dpb wrote:
On 5/15/2020 4:02 PM, Commander Kinsey wrote:
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Why can't it still crack the flush plaster you put over the tape?

The paper if flexible enough to give.

Surely gypsum board is in use throughout the world; can't be only US.

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in the UK anyway plasterboard sheets have to different sides used for
different applications.....

Well there are two sides here, too...the back side and the finish side.

There's no purpose for putting the wrong side out.

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there is no wrong side just used a different way .....
If skim-coating or venetian plastering you install it outside in?