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Interior Surfaces

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Interior home surfaces including wood and paint

Today's construction market offers a multitude of interior surfaces for the home and office. Surfaces are of course, those touchable parts of a ceiling, wall, or floor. Those surfaces might be supported by any number of underlying surface structures. It is important to consider surface sructure when selecting the type of paint, wallpaper, or other covering that can be applied over it. Let us begin with a brief look at some of the structures that lie directly beneath the paint, wallpaper or wood we see:

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Surface Structures

Common structures that lie directly beneath the touchable surfaces of a room include: (Titles link to images.)

Plasterboard: (gypsum plasterboard) or a building board comprised of aerated gypsum enclosed between two layers of a thick paper lining. The process of applying plasterboard is sometimes called "drylining" because it plasterboard is dry and it lines the inner surface of a property. Plasterboard is the most common interior wall surface in newer and resurfaced older homes.
Plaster & Lathe: the plasterboard of older homes, which unfortunately, was not any type of board or compact surface. Plaster
and lathe involved the application of wet plaster over thin wood slats.
Concrete: (cementous materials) Conrete walls are mostly found in basements or garages. Made of cement (calcinated limestone and water), sand, gravel, and water. Cinder blocks are also a cementous compound.

Sometimes the outermost covering of a wall also provides the surface structure. Such is often the case with brick, stone, and wood surfaces. Of course, these structures may have been applied over an underlying that may have served as a surface structure.

Brick & Stone: Brick and stone surfaces are easy to identify, even when painted, because of the texture formed by the bricks and mortar. See also cement and stucco.
Wood: Any number of types of wood can be found on interior walls. Wood may be applied directly over plasterboard or plaster and lathe (attached to studs) as a surface covering. Or it may have been installed as the surface structure.

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Types of Surface Coverings
Interior surface coverings-those substances that coat, cover, and color
surface structures can be broadly divided into seven categories:
Paint & Stain            Wallcoverings & Borders            Wood & Paneling
Masonry    Premanufactured Panels       Tile
        Applied Surfaces (textured, knockdown, popcorn ....)

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