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Had to replace a door yesterday. Here’s what I found when I took the old one out.
HO says the house was built in the 40’s…I couldn’t see if the exterior joints were taped<G>
Don’t worry, we can fix that later!
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Excellent... very fireproof.
and vewwy, vewwy quiet, too<G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!
What's holding the house up and that's cheatin' using a tape like that....
WTB no diamonds....
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Fast Cap tape gives me that edge I've always been looking for!
I wear my diamonds on my other hand<G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!
The exterior rock is probably gyplap, no need to tape it.It is still used today in certain situations.
mike
Yeah, that could be it. I found something here:
http://www.rexbuilding.com/toppage3.htm
Now, how 'bout those 2 layers of 1/4" on the interior, overlap?<G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!
Two layers of rock on the interior is something I haven't seen before. I kind of doubt that this was standard practice back then. The gyplap was used a lot on the exterior for sheathing. I had to gyplap one wall of my shop when I built it several years ago. Code official told me that because I was closer than 30'-0" to a neighbors house it had to be done.
mike
Makes sense on the gyplap, that's the street side of the house. The stuff I saw is under a covered entry, I hope i'm in that good shape when I'm 60<G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!
Kinda like the kitchen I tore into two years ago. Ugly interior stucco-type job on cheesy condo conversions.
Stucco was on 3/4" plywood. Have no idea why it was done this way, but that job got brought to a screeching halt to discuss the financials.
I've seen a double layer of 3/8" sheetrock in some high end houses. It makes for a very solid wall. Less expensive than plaster. I considered doing my own house that way but took the easy route for time constraints.
I've seen the double layers of rock before on houses built in the 50s, I assume when the stuff first came on the market. Two feet wide by 8 feet. 3/8's inch thick. Also found a house with a layer of plaster (~3/8ths in.) OVER 3/8" rock. Like they wanted to use the new technology, but couldn't part with the old.
Never seen the stuff on the exterior though.
> on houses built in the 50s, I assume when the stuff first came on the market.
IIRC, the first gyp board goes back to circa 1910. When my place was built in 1926, they used it in the stairwell and around the water heaters. The rest was wood lath and plaster. It seems to happen a lot that building products have to be around for a while before people trust them.
-- J.S.
Based my guess on the dates of the houses I've found it on, typically in the 50's. Haven't found the stuff on anything earlier. But next you're gonna tell me it's been used in Europe since the turn of the century, right? : ) Seems the folks across the pond often gets the jump on us. Guess we can call Europe the testing ground for building materials.
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Did a search, found that U.S. Gypsum was founded in 1902 - but they don't want to say when gypsum board was invented...
What I did find, but I don't know how "plaster board" relates to gypsum board:
1921 Became Japan's first producer and distributor of gypsum boards under the trademark of TIGER BOARD.
1917 The British Plaster Board was incorporated as a private company.
1915 The British Plaster Board was founded.
1906 The first UK mine and plaster mill UK was owned by Thomas McGhie & Sons and based in Kirkby Thore
1888 Augustino Sackett makes an invention in the US and developed a new material - plasterboard.
The house I live in, which was built in 1972, has 5/8" of plaster over 5/8" rock. Quiet and solid, but a pain in the hiney. Special order doors and windows (or additional trim), along with matching in patches, are my biggest complaints.
My house was built around 1936-39 era. The exterior sheathing was a 3/4 inch thick T&G gypsum product...similar to gyp lap. Wood clapboards was the finished siding. The interior was wood lath and plaster.
Davo
What's the matter? Can't read a tape? Have to use the Bob the builder version?
Who Dares Wins.
Well, Bob is boB backwards<G> Don't worry, we can fix that later!
billy, was the backing to the inside a tar impregnated paper? Used on brick veneer houses around here after the big one, tho not regularly.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Edited 5/25/2004 10:31 pm ET by calvin
Hey buddy, done your search and destroy on the Maumee yet?
The paper was dark, but I think that's due to age. The drop-coved ship lapped siding here is protected by 'luminums<G> I like the gyplap, sure made it easier to remodel that hole, plywood sheathing woulda sucked! and with the ply prices this gyplap stuff might make a comeback? Don't worry, we can fix that later!
A lot of walleye made an early exit from the muddy maumee.
River very muddy and very high with all the rain the past few weeks.
Work here is overpowering.
Money should be made.
You coming this way this summer?Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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