Drywall is a wall covering consisting of a hardened gypsum paste sandwiched between two sheets of paper. Civil war veteran Augustine Sackett invented the earliest incarnation of what we call ...

Q: Although my house was built only 5 years ago, some of the tape has pulled away from the wall.It looks like it is just peeling at the seams. I had a contractor come in with a price and he wanted ...

If your home was constructed between the 1970s and the present, your walls are probably drywall. Homes built in the 1950s and 1960s are a toss-up. Check it with a pushpin ...

Q: The walls in our 30-year-old house have developed cracks in a number of places where the pieces of Sheetrock butt. Also, in a couple of corners, one side of the tape has pulled.

my bedroom wall is on the other side of my neighbor’s living room. though a new construction condo, the noise travels real easily through the sheetrock. i heard there is a product where you can punch ...

Yesterday my contractor pt up sheetrock over one of my plaster walls in my front parlor and in my entrance hall. I was very upset when I saw this as I had not imagined he would repair the walls this ...

Q: How do I permanently patch Sheetrock cracks caused by the ground shifting? A: Houses built on clay soil are often plagued with cracks in drywall, often called Sheetrock, a brand of the USG ...