On 17/5/20 10:41 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Sat, 16 May 2020 14:04:30 +0100, Xeno wrote:

On 16/5/20 9:48 am, Commander Kinsey wrote:
On Fri, 15 May 2020 23:48:01 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:



"Commander Kinsey" wrote in message
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On Fri, 15 May 2020 22:20:07 +0100, Rod Speed

wrote:



"newshound" wrote in message
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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.

You wouldn't know how.

Why would I use the complicated messy **** when a wood panel is easier
to put up, easier to remove, and easier to attach things to.

You still need to fill between sheets of wood and, because of the
sheet's expansion coefficient, those joints *will crack*.

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Xeno


Nothing astonishes Noddy so much as common sense and plain dealing.
(with apologies to Ralph Waldo Emerson)