Q:Is plasterboard another name for drywall?

Plaster Vs Drywall

Q:Trying to get fit and build up my muscles.. my friend recently got a jml pull up bar for his bedroom door, but it doesn't screw in, it rests on the door frame and is very strong. He has fairly similar walls to me, but can't be sure. I have a new build house in UK, will my plasterboard walls support my 70kg weight? Thank you :-)

a door frame would work. plaster board will push away, and you will fall.

Q:I have put my flat screen tv on the wall but now all the wires are hanging down from my tv to my sky box and my xbox etc. I have drilled a hole behind my tv and a hole near the floor so that I can drop the wires through to make it more tidy. I tied the cable to a wire coat hanger to push it though but the cavity is filled with insulation and i cant push the wires through to the bottom. Also there might be joists that I haven't found yet. Does anyone know an easier way of doing this?Thanks

You should install surface mounted wire mold to conceal the wires. It's a violation of the electrical code to run device power cords through a wall so you could not legally run any 120 volt cables that way. You could also be breaching a firewall and a sound barrier, which this may well be because it has insulation in it (this would be true if it is a shared party wall) . If it is an outside wall, you are breaching the vapor barrier and reducing the weather seal on the house, also a poor idea. Also, it's a code violation to run 120 volt cable and low voltage communication cable through the same opening in a concealed partition. The only safe option for concealing the wires in the wall would be to use proper recessed backboxes with correctly supported cable between them -- as it is done when houses are built to accomodate wall mount TV's. There has to be two separate box systems, or a divided box and separated raceways, for the line voltage and low voltage cables. My advice is patch the holes you've made and run divided wiremold with channels for the two different voltages (your building or electrical supply store will have it).

Q:we've boarded out our eves in our attic and filled the gaps and screwholes with polyfilla. i'm a bit skint at the moment and the plasterer don't come cheaply! so i was thinking of painting straight onto the plasterboard just to make it look a bit tidyer. which would be the best way?, would i need to seal it first and if so how? Would normal emulsion work or would i need to use something else? thanks

No need to skim it. I use Kilz primer/sealer on walls I have built/repaired. You can have it tinted to closely match your final color.

Q:I'm buying a cheap floating shelf for 20 so I can hang it on my bedroom wall (plasterboard). I'm buying it for a new stereo I'm getting , but I don't know how to hang the shelf up. I read somewhere that if you're putting a floating shelf on plasterboard you need to use toggle bolts. Can I just drill the holes in the wall , put wall plugs in , and then screw the shelf in to them. The stereo is a Samsung mini system with two seperate speakers. How can I put it up without a chance of it falling down ?

Before you commit yourself, check the weight limit of the shelf, if it says anything with its instructions. Floating shelves are not all created equal. Then check the weight of the stereo.

Q:Plywood flat ceiling and gypsum board flat ceiling What is the difference between the best can be said that the next construction technology gypsum board ceiling construction process I know the plywood flat ceiling did not come into contact with the trouble to help analysis Thank you

Plywood flat ceiling has not heard of, according to our understanding should be: with the wooden side to fight the grid after the pincer with the air gun nail flat and then decorated panels or decorative panels shape, and finally on the paint.

Q:Need to know how much the nail a box of money

Gypsum board nails - generally on the gypsum board with a wooden arch screw, gun installation and installation specifications are unqualified (pull too small). Normal box is 3 to 6 yuan, 100 trees less than.

Q:Three building materials, plasterboard, brick, and wood, all the same thickness and area, are sandwiched to form a wall. Temperatures are 27 degrees Celsius at the inside plasterboard surface and 0 degrees celsius at the outside wood surface. Find the temperature where the plasterboard meets the brick and where the brick meets the wood.k for plasterboard = .40k for brick = .70k for wood = .2

1/0.4+1/0.7+1/.2 = 7.5+1/.7 or about 8.93 the plasterboard drops 27*2.5/8.93 C : about 7.7C so temperature at plasterboard/brick is around 19.3 C the wood drops twice as much about 15.2C so brick-wood interface is around 15.2C. Appropriate numerical precision when the conductivities are given to 2 significant figures means your answers should be about 19C and 15C. The brick is awful! Have a look at the link below; even thermal grease isn't much worse than this brick but the values do seem to be pretty typical.

Q:Gypsum board, across the wall, can be installed in a wall above the shelves, shelves to put a book, and will put a lot of books, can this?

Not recommended to do, gypsum board wall of the internal skeleton part called keel, wood and iron points, iron is often said light steel keel, if the light steel keel inside the frame, not easy and fixed between the shelves of the shelf! It is better to embed the bookshelf directly into the wall! 1, gypsum board wall reserved concave space, concave space depth can be 100mm, concave part of the space to do a fixed (more than a few internal skeleton) 2, in accordance with the size of the concave part, to be a shelves, put Go in, a little fixed can be.

Q:I'm renovating a 110year old end terrace. Plaster is all off right back to brick and I'm re plastering myself when the time comes. I took a professional quote and the contractor said that for the external facing walls, because I've stripped it all back, I'd need to use insulated plasterboard to conform to building regs??? Is this true? If so what is the minimum standard?

Only your local code enforcement officer can answer your question properly. Any other answer is just a guess.