GPS Drywall Contracts - Our Services Guide

GPS Drywall Contracts works with a range of clients from the private sector, architects, main contractors, property developers, insurance company’s and applies the same commitment to every single one. Chris Atkins our MD has brought together a very experienced team of highly skilled, organically trained professionals.

Plastering

Hard plaster requires one, sometimes two coats of sand and cement render with a finishing coat of smooth plaster. The sand and cement render can be replaced by proprietary plasters of differing types, each one of which is formulated for use a different substrate. The advantage of hard plaster is that it is extremely durable. The principal disadvantage is that it puts enormous amounts of water into the structure and this can lead to long drying out times.

MF Ceilings

Ceilings to be Artexed are usually tacked with plasterboard and taped with paper scrim prior to the finish being applied from the floor using special applicators and patterning tools. Any decorative mouldings or covings are put up before the Artex
is applied.

MF Ceilings, Plastered, or ‘set', ceilings are jointed with a silk scrim and then finished with a thin coat of smooth plaster. This is applied by a hand held trowel and there is therefore the need for a ‘board or foot scaffold'. Any decorative mouldings or covings are put up afterwards.

Rendering

Rendering is normally carried out with a one or two, occasionally three, coat render of sand and cement. For a smooth finish, the final coat is rubbed up with a float or trowel. Pebbledash is created by thickening the final coat and then dashing (throwing) pebbles into the mixture and pushing them home with a trowel. Tyrolean is created by a hand held machine that dashes a mixture of pebbles and render onto a first coat of render.

Dry Lining

Dry lining uses plasterboard fixed to the walls and is therefore a relatively dry process, which can be decorated shortly after completion. With a timber framed home the plasterboard is tacked directly to the timber studs. When used in traditional masonry construction, it can either be stuck to the walls by means of dabs of plaster or tacked to battening, firmly fixed to the substrate. Dry lining can be taped and jointed using special paper tape or it can be skim coated with a thin coat of plaster to provide a surface finish that is indistinguishable from hard plaster.

The standard plasterboard can be replaced by the more durable Gypsum Fibre Boards, which provide greater sound insulation properties and are strong enough to take fixings directly.

Metal Stud Partions

High performance walls constructed from plasterboard facings on metal studs have considerable advantages compared with traditional heavy masonry construction. They are lightweight, compact, quick to construct, cost effective, and able to achieve high levels of fire resistance, and acoustic insulation.