Drywall is a panel used to make internal ceilings and walls. Also known as sheetrock, gypsum board, plasterboard, or wallboard, it’s composed of gypsum plaster and covered front and back by thick sheets of paper. Due to the composition of drywall, sometimes it needs replacing.
Here are four reasons to replace your Drywall in Long Beach:
1. Noise: If you have the misfortune of living next to (or below) party animals, then perhaps a different type of drywall may be the answer. Specific types of drywall are intended to reduce noise. So, even if you don’t own the condo or townhouse, tell your landlord that replacing the drywall with a thicker kind could be a major selling point to other potential renters or buyers or could even convince you to stay!
2. Termites: Apparently termites find the paper on the front and back of drywall tasty. If your walls are infested, termites may gorge themselves then force you to evict them and replace your drywall.
3. Mold and Water Damage: Due to drywall’s composition, moisture and drywall do not mix very well. A flood certainly causes major damage and results in the replacement of all new drywall. But even unknown leaks could create chaos. When water gets to the core of drywall through capillary action, mold soon makes an appearance, and it spreads like wildfire!
4. Toxic Chinese Drywall: After Hurricane Katrina, a shortage of drywall gave China the opportunity to fill that void, and approximately 500 million pounds of drywall was shipped to the United States. Toxic Chinese Drywall was used during the rebuilding in 2006 and 2007, but some say that the toxic Chinese drywall was used as far back as 2001. Southern states and even California reported problems from toxic Chinese drywall. Testing confirmed that Chinese drywall releases a rotten-egg smelling gas, which corrodes copper coils inside air conditioning systems and wiring found in electrical outlets and appliances.
Reports of asthma; headaches; bloody noses; and respiratory and sinus ailments are wide-spread. Some even had to evacuate their homes. This situation with Chinese drywall is more complicated because of lawsuits, but some homeowners have opted to just replace the toxic drywall.
These are just a few reasons that you may want to start a home improvement project. If you need brand new drywall, or have any of these four reasons or other reasons to replace your Drywall in Long Beach, click here.
