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  2. What's the Actual Difference Between Sheetrock and Drywall? - AOL

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    Pabco QuietRock: QuietRock is sound-dampening gypsum drywall. How Sheetrock Differs from Drywall. ... Gypsum board and drywall are one and the same. Gypsum board is simply a technical name given ...

  3. Nevada Industrial Switch - Wikipedia

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    Nevada Industrial Switch is an active private railroad in Nevada, United States. [1] The railroad runs over Union Pacific's former "Fibreboard Spur". The line serves the PABCO Gypsum Mine that produces sheet rock.

  4. Drywall - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  5. List of commercially available roofing materials - Wikipedia

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    Steep roof materials are roofs that are only recommended where water can freely and openly drain off the edge of the roof without retaining water for too long. [1] The aim is to drain off water completely due to the high water permeability of most of these materials, for instance: the Thatched roofs.

  6. Gypsum block - Wikipedia

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    A gypsum block is made of gypsum plaster and water. The manufacturing process [1] is automated at production plants where raw gypsum (CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O) is ground and dried, then heated to remove three-quarters of the bound water and thus transformed into calcium sulfate hemihydrate (CaSO 4 ·½H 2 O), also known as gypsum plaster, stucco, calcined gypsum or plaster of Paris.

  7. Exterior insulation finishing system - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, the International Building Code and ASTM International define Exterior Insulation and Finish System (EIFS) as a non-load-bearing exterior wall cladding system that consists of an insulation board attached either adhesively, mechanically, or both, to the substrate; an integrally reinforced base coat; and a textured protective finish coat.

  8. Eagle Materials - Wikipedia

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    Eagle Materials Inc. is an American producer of building materials based in Dallas, Texas.The company produces cement, concrete, construction aggregate, gypsum, wallboard, paperboard, and sand for hydraulic fracturing.

  9. Gypsum - Wikipedia

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    Gypsum is a soft sulfate mineral composed of calcium sulfate dihydrate, with the chemical formula CaSO 4 ·2H 2 O. [4] It is widely mined and is used as a fertilizer and as the main constituent in many forms of plaster, drywall and blackboard or sidewalk chalk.