NOUN
- wallboard with a gypsum plaster core bonded to layers of paper or fiberboard; used instead of plaster or wallboard to make interior walls
How To Use gypsum board In A Sentence
- An estimated 100,000 houses across the country, most built in 2006 and 2007, may be affected, based on the 500 million pounds of Chinese drywall — also known as plasterboard or gypsum board — believed to have entered the U.S. during that period. The Prisoners of Drywall
- In new construction, the vapor retarder facing should be installed with the facing placed down toward the ceiling gypsum board, except in hot humid climates where unfaced batts should be used.
- We also like the fact that gypsum board area separation walls accommodate electrical and plumbing systems and we don't need to frame or fur.
- The gypsum board must be attached to the wood furring strips or underlying masonry using nails or screws.
- They should not be used to vacuum porous materials, such as gypsum board.
- Some rafter systems are not deep enough to accept fiberglass batting and/or even enough to attach a vapor barrier or support a finished wall of paneling or gypsum board.
- The floor is wood, the ceiling is gypsum board, and the walls are part plaster on masonry and part gypsum board on randomly spaced framing.
- Builders have been hit by a rash of lawsuits from homeowners, who complain that defective drywall, also known as gypsum board, imported from China during the housing boom is generating sulfurous odors, corrodes metal and, in some case, causes health problems. Wallboard Exporter in Settlement With Beazer Over Costly Repairs
- It can grow on material with a high cellulose and low nitrogen content, such as fiberboard, gypsum board, paper, dust, and lint.
- The gypsum board must be attached to the wood furring strips or underlying masonry using nails or screws.