Unlike most finishing materials, choose a drywall that is most suitable in one case or another is completely not difficult. The fact is that at the moment there are only three of its varieties – an ordinary sheet, fire -resistant and moisture -resistant.
Ordinary drywall
This type of decoration is used in residential premises most often. They make up walls and ceilings, and also arrange partitions from it. For installation, a special metal profile is usually used. Ceilings made of this material can be multi -level. Very often, all kinds of arches and niches are made from it. This type of finish bends very well, and therefore to arrange beautiful imitations of figured structural elements of the house with its help is very simple. Such material is pasted with gray cardboard. Therefore, to distinguish it from the other two types simply. The walls and ceilings made of KNAUF drywall are completely even. After the installation of sheets, you can immediately start finishing.
Moisture -resistant slabs
This type of gypsum fiber sheets (GVVV) is designed for decoration of rooms with high humidity. In the manufacture of them, special additives are added that prevent the penetration of moisture into them. In addition, they are covered with a special type of cardboard, which also does not pass moisture inside the sheet. Thus, the development of mold and other types of fungus inside the material is prevented. You can distinguish GVVV from GVL by color. They are covered with green cardboard.
This material is used to decorate walls and ceilings in bathrooms, bathrooms, pools, baths and other rooms with a wet microclimate. Hypsum cardboard of this species is mounted in the same way as usual.
Refractory sheets
Gypsum -fiber sheets of GVLO are most often used in production facilities – in warehouses, in workshops, etc.D. That is, where increased protection against fire is needed. Gypsum plate slabs of any kind do not burn. However, this type has increased resistance to fire.
Sandwich-gypsum cardboard
This material can be used not only for wall design, but also for their insulation, as well as improving soundproofing qualities. It is a regular plasterboard sheet with a polystyrene foam glued to the back. Mount it on the outer walls from the inside of the room. For this, the sheets are simply glued to the surface. This type will be especially useful in the cold regions of our country, where the walls for comfortable residence in houses and apartments are best insulated in this way, drywall is chosen primarily based on which room it will be intended for. For ordinary rooms, it is worth buying a gray GVL, for a bathroom or kitchen green plates, and in order to insulate the walls – sandwich variety.
