Walls
What can I say about Walls
Well there short but tall
Some are curved but most are straight
I'v seen walls covered with every thing under the sun
from jute to egg crates to carpet to cloth to paneling to mirrors
the old stand by paint Oh yes lets dont forget cork.
Finding the studs in a wall.
Patching holes in sheetrock.
Well lets start out talking about the differant kinds of walls
these houses have or had 1/4" thick by 1 and 1/2" wide latus boards
Also around this same time they were using 1 by 6 shiplap boards for
The inventing of sheetrock allowed builders to build homes much faster
These homes were fast to build and met the requirments of the average
lets go back to the year 1917 and swiss ave in dallas where the road
devides into two sides.
nailed on the studs of the walls with about 3/8" between the boards
then they were plastered over to give the wall its finnish and then
painted.
interor walls covered with cloth and painted to make a smooth wall
these two types of walls were used untill the invent of sheetrock around
or just after WWII.
with the same if not better result than the other ways of building walls.
And history marches on, here come the GI spec home or tract house,
cookie cutter homes whatever you want to call them.
famly just fine they were small afordable homes most had 2 or 3 bedrooms
and a bath and a half the walls in these homes were all made of sheetrock
and have lasted to this day.