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A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?


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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:28:03 +0100, Adrian Simpson
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Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?


TIA

Adrian

Invented 1894. Common use 1955

Depends on your definition of the terms used and geographical
location.

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Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?

http://www.drywallhowto.com/drywall-history.shtml


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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:28:03 +0100, Adrian Simpson
wrote:

Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?


TIA

Adrian

Invented 1894. Common use 1955

Depends on your definition of the terms used and geographical
location.

Erm! no it was 1922 when first used.

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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:28:03 +0100, Adrian Simpson
wrote:

Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?


TIA

Adrian

Invented 1894. Common use 1955

Depends on your definition of the terms used and geographical
location.

Erm! no it was 1922 when first used.


So it say around in Travis Perkins for 28 years before anyone tried it ?

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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:28:03 +0100, Adrian Simpson
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Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?


TIA

Adrian

Invented 1894. Common use 1955

Depends on your definition of the terms used and geographical
location.

Erm! no it was 1922 when first used.


So it say around in Travis Perkins for 28 years before anyone tried it ?

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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:28:03 +0100, Adrian Simpson
wrote:

Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?


TIA

Adrian

Invented 1894. Common use 1955

Depends on your definition of the terms used and geographical
location.

Erm! no it was 1922 when first used.


So it say around in Travis Perkins for 28 years before anyone tried it ?

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Er! probably as it was made to order ie it was an expensive material in
1922.

Who gives a fig about when it was made,I certainly don't

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A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?

http://www.drywallhowto.com/drywall-history.shtml

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No idea when 'invented'!
I do seem to recall 'plasterboard' being used extensively in a lot of
'Prefab housing' shortly after WWII. Also there was a plasterboard
manufacturing plant on the Wirral side of the river Mersey which I
would walk past in the late 1940s.
In this part of Canada it is still often called 'Gyproc' (Maybe that
was once trade name, like Hoover, and came into generally usage?).
Elsewhere have heard it described as 'Gypsum Board' etc.
With wood frame cnstruction three eighths WAS the common thickness.
More recently half inch on two by six wood frame etc. is now
mandatory, apparently for greater fire resistance. Half inch is
heavier to handle especially doing it yourself!This now 38 year old,
considerably self built, house is finished with three eighths
thickness. Cheers.

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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:28:03 +0100, Adrian Simpson
wrote:

Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?


TIA

Adrian

Invented 1894. Common use 1955

Depends on your definition of the terms used and geographical
location.

Erm! no it was 1922 when first used.


So it say around in Travis Perkins for 28 years before anyone tried it ?

Of course. Had to wait for it to warp nicely.

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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:28:03 +0100, Adrian Simpson
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Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?


TIA

Adrian

Invented 1894. Common use 1955

Depends on your definition of the terms used and geographical
location.

Erm! no it was 1922 when first used.


So it say around in Travis Perkins for 28 years before anyone tried it ?

They didn't stock drywall screws?

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On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 20:28:03 +0100, Adrian Simpson
wrote:

Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?


TIA

Adrian

Invented 1894. Common use 1955

Depends on your definition of the terms used and geographical
location.

Erm! no it was 1922 when first used.


So it say around in Travis Perkins for 28 years before anyone tried it ?

No, that was how long they had to wait to get served.

Colin Bignell

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On Jul 6, 6:03 pm, "Graham." wrote:
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... Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?

http://www.drywallhowto.com/drywall-history.shtml

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No idea when 'invented'!
I do seem to recall 'plasterboard' being used extensively in a lot of
'Prefab housing' shortly after WWII. Also there was a plasterboard
manufacturing plant on the Wirral side of the river Mersey which I
would walk past in the late 1940s.

Our last (1930s) house suffered indirect bomb damage during WII - ie all the
upstairs lath and plaster ceilings were blown down - info from older
neighbours. These were replaced with three-eighths plasterboard throughout -
downstairs ceilings remained as lath and plaster. On the assumption that
these were done in a reasonable time frame it seems that plasterboard was
available by 1945 ish.

Charles F

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Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?

http://www.drywallhowto.com/drywall-history.shtml

Unfortunately for the claims made in that page, the British Plaster Board
Company was formed in 1915, a year before plaster board was supposedly
invented. They put the invention date at 1888.

Colin Bignell

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Our last (1930s) house suffered indirect bomb damage during WII - ie all
the upstairs lath and plaster ceilings were blown down - info from older
neighbours. These were replaced with three-eighths plasterboard
throughout - downstairs ceilings remained as lath and plaster. On the
assumption that these were done in a reasonable time frame it seems that
plasterboard was available by 1945 ish.

Same here. Unfortunately they also removed the cornices. Free war damage
repair, I suspect.

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Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?



Thanks for the follow ups. I'm doing some work on a 1939 built place
and came across some plasterboard that looked as though it might have
been there from new (the only bit I have found so far), hence the
question.


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Er! probably as it was made to order ie it was an expensive material in
1922.

Who gives a fig about when it was made,I certainly don't

Maybe the antiques road show, if someone turns up with the first bit of
plaster board
asking for an insurance estimate as they do. ;-)
I can 'almost' imagine the scene .

On 6 Jul, 21:52, "George" wrote:

Er! probably as it was made to order ie it was an expensive material in
1922.

It wasn't (relatively). Plasterboard started being used commonly
around 1916, owing to shortage of labour to do wet plastering. It
might have been "expensive" as a _material_ in 1922, but then so was
plastering. Overall the balance had switched to "expensive materials /
reduced on-site labour" and never really switched back again, even in
the '30s.

Adrian Simpson wrote:
Hi all,

A quick question, when did plasterboard first come into common use ?


TIA

Found this (below) at the Gypsum Products Development Association website.

I think that "47 million square metres of plasterboard a year" counts as
common use - so by 1909. But not in Britain until 1917. (Which seems odd
- during WWI.)



"Because it is dry, strong, easy to handle and inexpensive, plasterboard
is being used in buildings all over the country. Yet before 1890 no one
had heard of the word.

It was 1890. In the works of the New York Coal Tar Chemical Company,
Augustine Sackett and Fred L. Kane were looking at the death of an
invention.

On a large wheel they had hoped to make a board from straw paper and
pitch for lining walls and ceilings. But the pitch soaked through the
paper, ruining all decoration applied to it.

But then Kane suggested using manilla paper instead of straw paper and
plaster of Paris instead of pitch. They poured in the thin plaster,
turning the big wheel five or six times, left the board to harden, and
found they had stiff, strong, new material - plasterboard.

At first, builders and decorators did not like this new product but
after ten years hard work the idea was accepted. More factories were
built and by 1909, Augustine Sackett was producing nearly 47 million
square metres of plasterboard a year.

In 1917 plasterboard came to Britain. The first factory in Europe was
set up in Wallasey, Cheshire and the company was led by Hugh Ferguson. A
success story began which is still going on. Today Britain uses over 200
million square metres of plasterboard each year."

http://www.gpda.com/student.htm

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