Drywall installs quickly and fairly easily by screwing it into the studs of the wall and today it comes in a variety of thicknesses and other options to choose from.
How to tell if a wall is concrete or drywall.
In heavier construction the support may be masonry brick poured concrete concrete block cinder block or tile blocks.
Wood or drywall pros.
Drywall panels fit between wall studs spaced 16 inches or 24 inches apart.
You will also find that whenever you are putting things up on the wall it is a lot easier to do it with wood or drywall.
Two of the most common forms of interior wall materials are plaster and drywall plaster has been used since ancient times.
They are much easier to obtain and they are also a lot more affordable.
Wood and drywall have a lot of pros in comparison to precast concrete.
A small awl or screw driver poking it will tell you what you got.
Test a known surface for hardness and feel it for temperature and moisture.
The drywall will be indicated by a paper coating both on the front and the back side of the plaster material in the middle.
The earliest plaster was usually made of lime sand animal hair and water source.
Macdonald egyptian tombs such as that of queen nefertari feature paintings on the plaster walls that line their interiors source.
These types of support are usually continuous across the whole wall.
If there is drywall take a drill and a very small bit and drill a hole somewhere inconspicuous.
If you don t have a drill you can use a hammer and a long nail.
Now the surface in most recently built homes this is wallboard also called drywall or plasterboard ranging from about 3 8 inch 9 5 mm thick to 3 4.
If the bit stops going after an inch or two the wall is concrete.
If you have plaster you will find that no paper will be present and you may find wire lath or material that is hard like cement.
The smaller dimensions of cement board make the installation of it on large walls more difficult but cement board panels fit vertically in 3 foot wide showers or horizontally behind a standard 5 foot bathtub.
If the wall feels as hard as concrete it probably is.
For patching if the hole is over about 1 2 diameter get some setting type drywall compound comes as a powder you have to mix it it sets up chemically not by drying so much less shrinkage.