Plasterboard is used to cover ceilings and walls, to raise divisions or to build custom-made furniture. It also serves as insulation, both thermal and acoustic, and even to create coatings and volumes within the home. These are just some of the many uses of Plasterboard, all of them more than ideal for your next home renovation. This material is the most sought after by homeowners who want a simple, fast, clean renovation, and with the advantage of being cheaper than a conventional one. With Plasterboard, everything is easy when it comes to giving a second life to your home.
What is Plasterboard?
Pladur is the brand under which the name of plates formed of plaster and cellulose has become popular, which in the form of sheets, have achieved great hegemony as a construction material in recent years, being one of the favorites when it comes to making comprehensive renovations. The result of the union of these components results in a material and flexible and resistant, due to the cardboard and cement. The use of these plasterboard sheets makes any renovation efficient, fast and more economical. Plasterboard is warm, non-flammable, highly resistant to direct shocks and as mentioned above, it is an excellent acoustic and thermal insulator. Pladur partitions are prefabricated, generating sheets prepared for immediate installation. As simple as cutting, putting them together to your liking, screwing and that’s it. An easy job, but in which we always recommend going to professionals specialized in its handling and installation, in addition to a previous taping work. Poor plasterboard assembly can cause bubbles on the surface of the walls or rapid deterioration of the panels.
What are the uses of Plasterboard?
When it comes to transforming your house into the home of your dreams, Plasterboard can be your great ally, with endless possibilities in its use. Forget about cement and bricks, and let your imagination run wild.
Plasterboard for building furniture
Shelves, integrated bookcases, headboards for your bed or take advantage of any corner to gain meters and space. With Plasterboard, you can give shape to any idea you imagine, you just have to give free rein to your creativity and that of your renovation team.
Plasterboard for covering wardrobes
Covering the inside of built-in wardrobes is also one of the most common uses of Plasterboard. Brick cabinets need a flat interior and Plasterboard is suitable to achieve the best finish, giving you the flexibility to design a custom cabinet.
Plasterboard for building partitions
The simplest way to separate spaces in your home is undoubtedly with interior plasterboard partitions. A new room? A cupboard? The separation of two spaces? Nothing resists Pladur.
Plasterboard for false ceilings
This is one of the most common applications of Pladur. Plasterboard is lightweight, so it does not overload the upper part of a room. The pristine finishes of Pladur make it perfect for concealing electrical installations, pipes or other elements near the ceiling. With Pladur you will achieve a smooth and aesthetic ceiling.
Plasterboard as insulation
As we have already seen, both acoustics and temperature find a great ally in Plasterboard, which has exceptional insulating conditions. If you are thinking of renovating your home to improve acoustics or to create a quieter and more comfortable workspace, Plasterboard is your solution. It also protects your home from the cold from sneaking into your home, so there are all advantages.
Different types of plasterboard slabs
The rise of Plasterboard in renovations and all types of constructions has led to the development of different types of Pladur, with different properties and different materials that seek to achieve one objective or another. Here we show you the most common ones.
- Standard Pladur (type N): This is the most widely used board in construction, and is obtained from a gypsum core covered with two layers of cellulose
- Reinforced plasterboard (TEC type): It is usually used in ceilings. Its hardness is reinforced to protect the plates from impacts.
- Fireproof plasterboard (FOC type): The plasterboard itself is fireproof, but glass fibres are added to this variety to reinforce its fireproof properties.
- Plasterboard for humidity (type WA): The outer layers of cellulose are reinforced with silicone to prevent the accumulation of moisture, also known as water-repellent Pladur.
Advantages of using Plasterboard in your renovation
After reading all of the above, don’t you feel like lining your entire house with Plasterboard? We have compiled all the advantages of this material, reasons that make it one of the most common resources in any self-respecting home renovation.
- Its installation is very quick and easy. Although we insist that it is necessary for the installer to be specialized in Plasterboard. With a good professional, their installation method is very fast and a good combination of this with the rest of the materials is wonderful.
- Without debris and without leaving traces of dirt: it is a very clean work, it is placed dry and leaves no trace.
- Plasterboard is insulating. It protects your home from both outside noise and temperatures, although the thickness of the model to be used must be taken into account.
- It is anti-humidity and fireproof. In fact, Pladur is a material classified with the M-1 label, so it is not flammable.
- The result of using Pladur is a perfect finish for different surfaces of the house, aesthetic and also allows it to be tiled or painted.
- It is ultra-light and can be placed anywhere.
If you need more reasons to convince yourself that Plasterboard is going to be the king of your next renovation, don’t forget that the time spent on laying Plasterboard is half of what it takes to carry out the work with traditional materials. You already have the reasons, now you just have to imagine what you want your new house to look like and let Kaleidoscope take care of capturing and executing that dream that you have so many times postponed.
