Drywall, also known as wallboard, is made from gypsum coated with paper and is used in walls and ceilings. From Wordnik.com. [Home Builder Tallies Up Drywall Claims] Reference
Much of the problematic drywall, which is also known as wallboard or plasterboard, was manufactured in China. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Drywall Cited in Building Woes] Reference
Markets for materials such as wallboard and organics are also emerging, offering new opportunities for disposal diversion. From Wordnik.com. [CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News] Reference
Then I'll put on wallboard and it'll be good as new. From Wordnik.com. [Homebody]
And saw the inside of the wallboard to the next room. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
From crawling around in the wallboard dust, he guessed. From Wordnik.com. [Bad Luck and Trouble]
It is North America's largest maker of gypsum wallboard. From Wordnik.com. [Buy Health Care, Industrials And Energy Stocks] Reference
"So the snake brought its meal along," a wallboard retorted. From Wordnik.com. [Up In A Heaval]
How can you eat a food that sounds like insulated wallboard?. From Wordnik.com. [Nose goblins. « A Bird’s Nest] Reference
Permanently installed paneling, wallboard, bookcases and cabinets. From Wordnik.com. [Understanding Lender-Required Flood Insurance] Reference
Certainly, mixing it gypsum in sheet rock/wallboard seems dumber still. From Wordnik.com. [What to do with toxic coal ash?] Reference
A Chicago-based wallboard maker, USG, reportedly plans to cut 1,100 jobs. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 10, 2007] Reference
The most significant use for gypsum is for wallboard and plaster products. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsum] Reference
And we found all of these old, early 1970s Seattle newspapers behind a wallboard. From Wordnik.com. [Microserfs]
Frustrated, I grabbed a hammer and pounded a fist-sized hole through the wallboard. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
She consulted a wallboard covered with slips of paper, each with a written address. From Wordnik.com. [Borrowed Finery, A Memoir]
More typical was what happened with USG Corp., the Chicago-based maker of wallboard. From Wordnik.com. [Heavy Machinery & Materials] Reference
As I was on the tour, I was hearing that demand for wallboard has actually gone down 25%. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 24, 2008] Reference
Walls were built with gypsum wallboard harvested and manufactured within 500 miles of use. From Wordnik.com. [In Bethesda, a home built to have a net-zero carbon footprint] Reference
If homes and building here were made of plywood or wallboard, you could shoot through them. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2006] Reference
Hollow doors and wallboard are less durable than solid-oak doors and lath-and-plaster walls. From Wordnik.com. [The Next Slum?] Reference
He flipped the knife angrily across the room, so that it landed point-first in the soft wallboard. From Wordnik.com. [Wagers of Sin]
But now federal investigators are also setting their sights on wallboard that was made by American companies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 3, 2009] Reference
I guess you could have buildings that are made out of plywood, or building made out of wallboard, like normal. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 18, 2006] Reference
The Shure Corporation is as steady an innovator in high-end acoustics as USG in reframing the wallboard market. From Wordnik.com. [Rod Shrader: Bringing Chicago Innovation Into the Sunshine] Reference
All modern homes in North America and other developed countries use a great deal of wallboard for interior walls. From Wordnik.com. [Gypsum] Reference
The traces of calcium and sulfur could easily be from wallboard (calcium sulfate), as the authors themselves conclude. From Wordnik.com. [Was it Nanotech-Thermite or Phasers that took down the WTC?] Reference
The interlocking ReFit panels are made of expanded polystyrene EPS with embedded fastening strips to which you attach wallboard. From Wordnik.com. [Builders’ Show: A greener, easier basement retrofit] Reference
By comparison, in the hard-hit building-materials business, wallboard manufacturing capacity was still estimated to be around 50%. From Wordnik.com. [Auto-Parts Makers Rev Profits] Reference
Materials production, such as the manufacture of wallboard, is technically challenging and requires close matching of compositions. From Wordnik.com. [Industrial symbiosis] Reference
Somewhere not far away a floorboard creaked, a voice only half-muffled by wallboard, said, 'Wouldja look at all these goddamned clothes. From Wordnik.com. [Black Blade]
In dumps specializing in construction and demolition debris it can be produced when gypsum, the main ingredient in wallboard, decomposes. From Wordnik.com. [A Gas Under Pressure] Reference
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