Gypsum board is also known as drywall or plasterboard. Basically is a panel of gypsum plaster pressed between two sheets of paper board. They are generally 1/2 an inch thick and used to make interior walls, or in this case fill up the existing holes that were put in the wall for the purpose of rewiring, patching things up etc. There are thinner gyp board of 1/4 inch, but according to the guys, they are easily warped, so basically shouldn't be used. This came up because I really dislike the ceiling being so low, in fact 2.5 inches lower than necessary... I was hoping to have as thin a gyp board as possible. Now why 2.5 inches? Well, remember the fatal 1/2 inch from an earlier post? A mistake. And the other 2 inches are because of the wish to flush with the top of the cabinets which are 84 inches. When Noor first asked me "Is 84 inches ok for all the cabinets?" I said yes without thinking that the maximum ceiling height is 86", not 84". I believe the reason he applied this restriction is because the particular Plyboo strand bamboo plywood Noor is using for the cabinets comes in the length of 84"...I should have checked the height possibility better. And the original drawings of Jessica do not have the dimensions written out, thus, another mistake.
Anyway, most of the openings in the walls are gypped, including the new ceiling and some new posts. I see that there are extra yellow tapings all around the gaps. I suppose it will be plastered tomorrow.
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| Guest room all patched up. |
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| Jessica's room all patched up. |
The toilet tank in the wall and the bathrooms ceilings are also gypped.
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| The in wall toilet tank and in wall faucet and the new ceiling. |
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| New door to the master bathroom. OK old toilet is still there for the constructors. |
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| Bathroom ceiling and side. |
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