On Sat, 16 May 2020 23:16:13 +1000, Xeno
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On 16/5/20 11:03 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2020 01:02:34 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Fri, 15 May 2020 23:48:01 +0100, Rod Speed
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"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Fri, 15 May 2020 22:20:07 +0100, Rod Speed

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On 15/05/2020 17:12, Rod Speed wrote:
Commander Kinsey wrote
I was astonished to find Americans actually call plasterboard
"drywall"
even if it's on a ceiling!* So not a wall!

I'm not astonished or amazed that you are astonished at that, you
have
always been that mindlessly obsessive about words.
Daft in the first place to say "drywall", as all walls are dry,
unless
made of mud, which is still dry once it's set.

Plastered walls are wet when you are doing the plastering, stupid.

Not usually in America, where they just tape and fill the joints.
Hence
"Drywall".

I was talking about lath and plaster, not joins in whatever you call
sheets
of drywall.

Wet plastering is still done in the UK, most obviously with skimming.

Far too skillfull a task for an American.

Wrong, they used to do it that way until they invented drywall.

You lot are too stupid to do it the better way.

I'd never use the Neanderthal stuff.

It is in fact much more recent than timber walls

Doesn't mean it's better, just cheap ****.* Dyson bagless hoovers are
more recent, doesn't mean it's a good idea to have your dust float all
over the room when you try to empty it.

And if you want cheap, just buy chipboard.* Easier and cleaner to cut,
put up, remove, and screw things into.

What do you do with the joints? BTW, you do realise that chipboard
sheets will have joints, don't you? Do you realise that the coefficient
of expansion of chipboard is much greater than plasterboard so cracked
joints *will* be an issue.

Just out of interest, I grew up in a house where the walls were sheeted
with *hardboard* sheets. These had nowhere near the expansion
coefficient of chipboard but, even so, the gaps couldn't be plastered.
Instead the flat gaps were covered with rounded edge wood strips and the
angled corners with quad strips. It was cheap but effective. That house
was extended and completely made over after we sold it so it probably
has plaster sheet wall coverings now.


The strips were called "burlap" - not the fabric bags are made of -
Generally 1 1/2 by 3/8" with rounded or "broken" corners - basically a
finer version of "battens".
Back in the 70s plywood and hardboard "panelling" was popular - it was
scored to look like board or toung and groove - wall panelling and
hiding the joints was a real skill - the plywood was so thin it
buckled between the colour-matched nails, and the finishon the
hardboard was so hard you couldn't sink the heads - and half of IT was
so floppy it buckled too. The finish on the cheaper "plywood" was a
resin impregnated photographic reproduction of woodgrain. - while the
better stuff was a tissue-paper thin veneer. LOTS of that got covered
with 1/4 or 3/8" drywall glued on with PL - and some just got skimmed
with wallboard compound and painted or papered over. In a humid
basement the walls looked something like lake superior on a calm
moonlit night - - - - - -
you pathetic excuse for a troll.

Pot kettle black.* Everybody on here refers to you as that.