How to Buy Drywall

When it comes to home renovation, gypsum board is indispensable. So how much do you know about gypsum board? Let me tell you about it below.

Gypsum board is a material made primarily from building gypsum. It is lightweight, strong, thin, easy to process, and offers excellent sound insulation, heat insulation, and fire resistance. It is one of the new lightweight board materials currently receiving significant development attention.

Gypsum board product parameters:

Product specifications: 1220×2440×(9.5~12)mm

Gypsum board product categories:

Paper-faced gypsum board, moisture-proof paper-faced gypsum board, fire-proof paper-faced gypsum board, high-strength gypsum board, formaldehyde-free gypsum board, etc.

Gypsum board:

Gypsum board is a lightweight board made with a gypsum slurry core and paper facings on both sides. It offers light weight, high strength, fire resistance, moth resistance, and ease of processing. Standard gypsum board is used for interior walls, partitions, and ceilings. Water-resistant gypsum board with fireproofing treatment can be used for lining walls in rooms with high humidity, such as bathrooms, kitchens, and showers, where tile, metal panels, or plastic tiles are installed.

Product performance:

Ordinary paper-faced gypsum board (codenamed P) has ivory-white surface paper on the front and gray backing paper on the back.

Moisture-resistant paper-faced gypsum board (code S) has easily recognizable green face paper and backing paper.

Fireproof paper-faced gypsum board (code H) has pink face paper underneath and grey backing paper on the back.

Product advantages:

It is green and environmentally friendly, does not produce or release any harmful substances, has flame retardant properties, good thermal insulation, sound insulation, is not easy to crack and deform, and is light in weight for easy transportation.

Applications:

Gypsum board has been widely used in interior partitions, wall coverings, ceilings, sound-absorbing panels, ground base boards and various decorative panels in various buildings such as residences, office buildings, shops, hotels and industrial plants. It should not be installed in bathrooms or kitchens for indoor use.

How to Buy Drywall

1. Visual inspection

1. High-quality gypsum board: smooth surface, without obvious pores, cracks, missing corners, etc.; low-quality gypsum board: rough surface, with obvious stains.

2. High-quality gypsum board: the upper and lower layers have strong adhesion; low-quality gypsum board: the surface paper has poor adhesion.

2. Tap with your hands

High-quality gypsum board: makes a crisp sound when knocked; low-quality gypsum board: makes a dull sound when knocked.

3. Dimensional tolerance, flatness and right angle deviation

High-quality gypsum board: small size deviation, good flatness, and precise thickness; low-quality gypsum board: large size deviation, inaccurate flatness and thickness.

For consumers who are not familiar with gypsum board, there will be big problems in the purchasing process, so try to choose products produced by manufacturers with high reputation, large scale, good reputation and compliance with national standards, so as to avoid decoration pollution, causing radioactive nuclides to remain indoors for a long time, causing great harm to human health.