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Drywall stories:

US consumer products safety chief says China helping find source of drywall problems
Oct 26th, 2009 - dailypress
BEIJING (AP) - China is helping American officials investigate reports of contaminated Chinese drywall after thousands of American homeowners complained the building material made them sick or damaged their houses, a top U.S...
US safety chief says China helping on drywall
Oct 26th, 2009 - Boston
BEIJING—China is helping American officials investigate reports of contaminated Chinese drywall after thousands of American homeowners complained the building material made them sick or damaged their houses, a top U.S...
Citizens reverses drywall policy
Oct 24th, 2009 - Heraldtribune
Florida's public insurance company reversed course this week and said it will cover a couple's Gulf Coast retirement home, after previously telling them that their policy would not be renewed because of the home's tainted Chinese drywall.
Fla. insurer renews policy despite Chinese drywall
Oct 23rd, 2009 - Washington Post
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- Florida's public insurance company reversed course this week and said it will cover a couple's Gulf Coast retirement home, after previously telling...
US safety chief seeks China's help on drywall
Oct 23rd, 2009 - MiamiHerald
SHANGHAI -- Top U.S. safety officials were meeting with their Chinese counterparts to discuss complaints from American homeowners of illness and other damage from suspect drywall imported from China.

Drywall videos from YouTube:

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Taping and Mudding Drywall
Mark Donovan of HomeAdditionPlus.com walks you through the process of taping and mudding drywall.
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Tips On How To Install Drywall : Taping Two Pieces of Drywall
Learn how to apply tape to two pieces of drywall when installing drywall in this free DIY video. Expert: Noah Richardson Bio: Noah Richardson has worked for Elliot Construction as a dry waller for years and is an experienced handyman in many other facets of construction as well ...
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Taping Drywall Joints
As summarized from drywallinfo.com - How to apply tape to a drywall joint. Place mud on, wet the tape slightly, squeeze the excess drywall mud out the sides as you press down with the taping knife.
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Hanging drywall on ceiling w/ one man
Shows a home-made scaffold that lets one man easily hang sheetrock on a 10' ceiling.

Drywall from WikiPedia:

Drywall is the term used for a common method of constructing interior walls and ceilings using panels made of gypsum plaster pressed between two thick sheets of paper, then kiln dried. Drywall construction is used globally for the finish construction of interior walls and ceilings. Drywall construction became prevalent as a speedier alternative to traditional plaster interior finish techniques, which involved hand-placing base, scratch and finish coats in successive layers by hand. (See also, the history of Homasote, a dry applied wall or ceiling board finish system.) Drywall, by contrast, required hand finishing only at the fasteners and joints. The new process required less labor and drying time, lending its name to the panels used in the assembly.[citation needed]

Panels installed may be known as gypsum board, wallboard, plasterboard (USA, UK, Ireland, Spain, Australia), Gibraltar board or gib wall and ceiling linings (in New Zealand trademark of Winstone Wallboards), rock lath, Sheetrock (a trademark of USG Corporation, rigips (Germany and Central Europe - after the Rigips brand), alç?pan in Turkey, and placoplatre (France).