One of the basic components of most building construction which occurs in the United States and throughout the world involves the use of drywall. Most drywall today involves a layer of gypsum which is ...

This homeowner's guide to plastering will help homesteaders understand how to work with plaster. Commonly used as a protective finish over exterior walls, plasters also offer durability and beauty for ...

As Hurricane Katrina raged through New Orleans in 2005, neighborhood after neighborhood collapsed from flooding. Of the houses that stood, many still had to be bulldozed due to mold within the walls.

BUA Gypsum Plaster Limited, a subsidiary of BUA Group, has officially commenced operations at its newly built 2,400 tonnes per day gypsum plaster manufacturing facility in Port Harcourt, Rivers State.

Historians have long known that the Romans sometimes covered their dead in liquid gypsum, a mineral used in plaster, before placing the bodies in their tombs. Still, the ritual—and the reasons behind ...

Archaeologists working across Egyptian burial sites have recovered coffins made from strikingly different materials, from ...

EXPERIMENTS carried out in this laboratory with some commercial gypsum plasters show that, between 0° and 50° C., temperature may exert a comparatively small effect upon the rate of hydration of the ...

THE initial thickening of slurries of hemi-hydrate type gypsum plasters has been considered by many workers to be due to a colloidal mechanism, whereas the further hardening and final setting have ...