10 reasons to choose plasterboard
With this post you will learn to love this miraculous material.
Despite the low cost, the gypsum board has innumerable qualities and the 10 most important ones will be revealed below:
1. Easy to work
Gypsum plasterboard is an extremely light material, easy to transport, easy to cut and work, easy to assemble and extremely clean when laying.
Thanks to these characteristics, it has replaced old and heavy bricks, dusty and dirty bags of cement and all the necessary tools for their installation in modern buildings.
The slabs are presented in sheets of chalk to be cut with a simple cutter or professional saw to be combined later, with specific screws, to the sheet metal profiles to obtain false ceilings and counter-walls.
This ease of assembly has made the plasterboard among the most sought-after materials used by DIY enthusiasts.
In fact, with a little manual skill, it is possible to create complex creations and furnishing solutions.
2. Clean and tidy
As already mentioned above, cleaning during installation is one of the prerogatives of plasterboard.
Paying the necessary attention will be possible to carry out renovations while you live inside the building and the final cleaning of the rooms will require only broom, vacuum cleaner and a floor wash.
3. Hides the facilities
Walls and false ceilings in plasterboard can hide all the systems of the dwelling inside the interspace created between the aluminum frame and the slab.
It will no longer be necessary to resort to the invasive traces on the masonry wall and it will be possible to carry out a faster and cleaner work.
In addition to the traditional electrical or hydraulic systems, thanks to new hydro-sanitary products, it will also be possible to hide the WC water drains, heat radiators, air conditioners, ... thus finding many aesthetic solutions that until recently were unthinkable .
4. Island acoustically
To obtain an excellent soundproofing of an environment, it is necessary to intervene both from the point of view of sound absorption and from the point of view of sound insulation:
⁃ In the first case it is about the ability of a product to absorb the sound energy that impacts on it, that is all the problems concerning the control of sound propagation in closed environments.
⁃ In the second case we mean the ability of a system to eliminate or reduce the sound intensity (airborne noise) that comes from adjacent and / or overlying environments.
There are several specific products that have as their purpose the acoustic protection of the environments:
⁃ plasterboard panels combined with insulating materials;
⁃ sheets combined with recycled and recycled rubber granules;
⁃ acoustic deflectors (buffles);
⁃ panels in mineral fiber or metal for false ceilings;
⁃ wooden panels for ceilings or walls with high sound-absorbing power.
5. Thermally island
Thermally insulating an environment means to insulate the same with specific products.
There are many types of insulating materials that are subdivided into three macro areas such as:
⁃ mineral type: rock or glass wool.
⁃ of plastic type: expanded polystyrene or expanded polyurethane.
⁃ of a natural type: cork or natural wool.
These materials are used during the renovation (or in a new construction) in the construction of "coats", mounted externally or internally (or sometimes on both areas), which act as protection against too high temperatures in summer and too low in winter; to avoid any sudden changes in temperature or simply to solve problems of humidity and mold.
The assembly of these products can mainly take place in two ways:
Materiali the materials described above are coupled to plasterboard slabs that are glued directly to the affected wall (alternatively, the wall anchoring is done mechanically using dowels);
⁃ the aforementioned materials are placed in the cavity that is created by mounting the plasterboard sheets on a metal frame.
6. Protects from fire
In some situations, thanks to the regulations established in recent years, a certificate of fire resistance of the rooms is requested (especially in public buildings).
Here comes the plasterboard in the field thanks to its properties of resistance to flames and the poor propagation that follows, moreover, recently, the already natural characteristics of the gypsum are mixed with glass fibers, vermiculite or other materials giving life to new plates with fire resistance properties that respond, in an always better manner, to the fireproof parameters in force (EI parameters).
7. Water-repellent
Another very appreciated aspect of plasterboard is its ability to resist in humid environments such as the bathroom, the kitchen, ... keeping its properties unchanged and ensuring a low absorption of water and vapors.
These plates differ from the standards because they are externally green in color and undergo a treatment that gives them the characteristics described above.
8. Impact resistant
The development of new technologies and the birth of new compounds related to the production of slabs together with the new techniques of construction of a plasterboard wall, has given rise to the creation of walls and false ceilings increasingly resistant to shocks and stresses.
To date, a plasterboard wall made of art can be more resistant than a wall made with old and dear bricks.
9. Create furniture solutions
As already specified previously in point 1, being easy to process, the plasterboard allows you to find and create furniture solutions until a few years ago unthinkable or achievable only thanks to a good carpenter.
Realize the design of a bookcase, the covering of a fireplace, the construction of a walk-in closet, the filling of a compartment under the stairs, ... it will be extremely easy and economical with tight implementation times.
10. Easy to remove
Easy to assemble as well as ... disassemble!
Yes, this wonderful material is also easy to remove. This allows changes during construction or demolition of works considered no longer suitable for the functionality of the home.
Conclusions on plasterboard
How not to appreciate plasterboard?
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