On Sat, 16 May 2020 18:53:40 UTC, "Rod Speed"
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"Xeno" wrote in message
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On 16/5/20 2:12 am, 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 when you put it up in *sheets* Rod.

That's not PLASTERED, that's drywalled or in our case gyprocked.

Plastered means applying plaster to the wall using a trowel
and a pile of wet plaster. Similar to rendering a wall but using
plaster instead of render. The poms still do quite a bit of that
plastering with infernal walls, particularly in older houses.

Only the joints are wet - for a short time.

Not with traditional plastering. The whole wall is quite wet for quite a
while.

And if you are Michelangelo you paint the wall while it's wet.

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John Varela