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    British Gypsum at Kirkby Thore. BPB was a multinational company with operations in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. In Europe its main rivals are Lafarge of France and Knauf of Germany, which has a UK plant at Immingham. [citation needed] Plasterboard is mainly used for internal partition walls. BPB's other products include plaster ...

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    Various sized cuts of 1 ⁄ 2 in (13 mm) drywall with tools for maintenance and installation . Drywall (also called plasterboard, dry lining, [1] wallboard, sheet rock, gib board, gypsum board, buster board, turtles board, slap board, custard board, gypsum panel and gyprock) is a panel made of calcium sulfate dihydrate (), with or without additives, typically extruded between thick sheets of ...

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    Buildbase is a builders’ merchants in the United Kingdom, and is approaching two hundred branches nationwide. Buildbase is part of Huws Gray having been bought from Grafton Group plc in a deal that saw Grafton sell its merchanting business in the UK. [1]

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  6. Plaster - Wikipedia

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    Plaster (often called stucco in this context) is a far easier material for making reliefs than stone or wood, and was widely used for large interior wall-reliefs in Egypt and the Near East from antiquity into Islamic times (latterly for architectural decoration, as at the Alhambra), Rome, and Europe from at least the Renaissance, as well as ...

  7. Vapor barrier - Wikipedia

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    Class II, Semi-impermeable (0.1-1 US perm, or 5.7-57 SI perm) – such as unfaced expanded or extruded polystyrene, OSB, fiber-faced isocyanurate, 30 pound asphalt-impregnated building papers, exterior oil-based paints, unfaced expanded polystyrene, 30 pound asphalt coated paper, plywood, bitumen coated kraft paper;

  8. Consumer Price Index (United Kingdom) - Wikipedia

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    Uk inflation history inflation hit 24% in 1975 and in 1976 the Sterling crisis occurred, followed by the Winter of Discontent [2]. The traditional measure of inflation in the UK for many years was the Retail Prices Index (RPI), which was first calculated in the early 20th century to evaluate the extent to which workers were affected by price changes during the First World War.

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