What is drywall > Materials

All types of drywall have excellent soundproofing properties, as well as high environmental friendliness and incombustibility. Drywall boards can absorb excess moisture from the air or return moisture to dry air. In rooms decorated with drywall, it is always easy to breathe.

Using drywall, you can create modern multi-level ceilings, as well as fancy interior partitions with all sorts of shelves or niches. Drywall will help to make your interior design unique, making your secret dream come true. Read about plasterboard wall decoration here, and the ceiling here.

The basis of drywall, as you might guess from the name, is gypsum, which is lined with thick cardboard. Since the space between the cardboard layers is filled with gypsum, the sheet does not burn, but only slightly charred. Special additives that drywall manufacturers add to the mixture give it density and high strength. Cardboard serves as a kind of frame, additionally reinforcing the material. The cardboard shell is treated with a special bactericidal mixture that protects against the appearance and further reproduction of mold or fungus. The undoubted advantage of gypsum plasterboards is their flat surface, which facilitates further finishing: painting of structures, wallpapering and more.

Types of drywall:

In addition to conventional drywall, moisture and fire resistant boards are also available. Conventional plasterboard sheets are most often used for installing interior partitions, ceilings, and decoration of walls indoors. Moisture-resistant drywall is characterized by reduced water absorption. It is used for decorating bathrooms, bathrooms and kitchens. Fire-resistant drywall is used in rooms where high fire safety is required.

A special property of gypsum plasterboard is that it can be given absolutely any shape. This fact creates unlimited scope for the imagination of the designer. You can make an arch, a column, a dome cover, a variety of curved transitions between planes. All types of drywall in the wet state are very plastic, and when dried, they retain the shape that they gave it.

For the installation of drywall plates on the frame using a screwdriver. The space inside the structure, if necessary, is filled with communications (networks and cables). All these characteristics make this material very popular in the construction industry.