On 17/5/20 1:20 pm, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On Sat, 16 May 2020 03:52:00 +0100, Rod Speed
wrote:


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

Yes but we call is plasterboard in the UK.* Horrid stuff, try
removing it.


How often do you remove yours?* Do you take it down weekly for cleaning?
*I just leave it in place unless doing a remodel a couple of times in
my life.

I had lived in that house for 15 years and did a much needed update in
the kitchen. It had very old built in kitchen cabinets, a strange box
arrangement where the stove and oven were. I went the whole hog, took
the walls right back to the studs, ripped the ceiling sheets down from
the ceiling beams - then started with a blank canvas. Once finished I
did similar things to the walls in the bathroom, toilet and laundry.
Made all rooms look a whole lot better and a lot more functional by the
time I'd finished.
But that was a once only. Did some bathroom renos in the next house and
some floor tiling, nothing major.
My current house was only 8 years old when I bought it, don't intend to
do anything major, no need.


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