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Plaster and lath walls 1960s4/1/2024 Of the houses that stood, many still had to be bulldozed due to mold within the walls. "As Hurricane Katrina raged through New Orleans in 2005, neighborhood after neighborhood collapsed from flooding. But it may just be easier to change America’s eating habits than its living habits.ĭrywall is much cheaper than plaster, not eco-friendly, either. Maybe that’s because drywall really is the best way to create affordable housing for millions. White bread sales are now declining, but drywall is doing better than ever. Like white bread in the 1950s, drywall became the de facto consumer substance with the promise of a better, cleaner, easier life. They wanted a neat, tidy little white-boxed world in the 1950s after the war. People wanted white bread and confectioner’s sugar. The United States Gypsum Corporation, a company that vertically integrated 30 different gypsum and plaster manufacturing companies 14 years prior, created it to protect homes from urban fires and marketed it as the poor man's answer to plaster walls.ĭrywall didn’t catch on right away, but in the 1940s, sales grew rapidly thanks to the baby boom. Do most older, pre-war homes still retain their plaster walls, or have they been replaced with drywall? I've only lived in one pre-war home, built in the 1920s, and it had drywall throughout.ĭrywall was invented in 1916. I know drywall didn't come into common use until relatively recently. Lathe and plaster imo is a far superior material. ![]() I really don't like drywall, I think its cheap crap.
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