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Guide to beaverboard, drywall, plaster & paneling on interior walls:

Ages & types of finish materials used for interior walls & ceilings: here nosotros provide a photograph guide to identifying types of plaster, board, Beaver board, Upson Board, and Drywall to help identify these interior building wall and ceiling coverings and as an aid in determining the age of a building.

This commodity discusses the identification and history of older interior building surface materials such plaster and lath, Beaverboard, and Drywall - materials that were used to form the (usually) not-structural surface of building interior ceilings and walls.

Our page top photo shows hand-dissever wooden lath backing for a plaster interior wall.

We as well provide an ARTICLE INDEX for this topic, or you can try the page top or bottom SEARCH BOX as a quick way to find data yous need.

Guide to Plaster & Drywall & Other Interior Wall Coverings every bit Indicators of Building Age

Article Serial Contents

• DRYWALL, FIBERBOARD, PLASTER INTERIORS
  • ASBESTOS CEMENT CEILING & WALL PANELS
  • ASBESTOS in DRYWALL - carve up article
  • BEAVERBOARD - split up article
  • UPSON Lath - MDF used as interior sheathing and in many other applications from puzzles to oil paintings
  • Blanket TYPE CEILING & WALL SURFACES: Itemize OF
  • DRYWALL & GYPSUM Lath - divide article
  • DRYWALL IDENTIFICATION STAMPS - separate article
  • FIBERBOARD Sheathing - split up article, Beaverboard, Nu-Wood, Insulite, and many others on edifice exteriors & interiors
  • GYPSUM Lath PLASTER Lath SYSTEMS
  • HARDBOARD Bathroom & KITCHEN PANELS
  • MASONITE & HARDBOARD CEILING & WALL COVERINGS
  • Metallic LATH for PLASTER
  • PANELING, Wood & WAINSCOTING
  • PLASTIC INTERLOCKING Bath TILES
  • SACKETT Board
  • UPSON Lath
  • Forest FIBRE INSULATING PANELS
  • WOOD Board for PLASTER or STUCCO - divide commodity

Above nosotros evidence a photograph of hand-split wood lath and plaster wall, from the wall-cavity side. Ca 1800. There are several generations of plaster and board, plaster board, and drywall which have been used in buildings.

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History of Types Interior Plaster: split woods board, sawn woods lath, expanded metallic lath, "rock lath" or plasterboard, drywall, & tainted Chinese drywall

The age of a building can be adamant quite accurately by documentation, simply when documents are non readily available, visual clues such as those available during a professional person home inspection can withal determine when a house was built past examining its components, building materials, even nails, fasteners, and types of saw cuts on lumber.

We name and illustrate these and discuss their periods of employ below as an aid in finding out how old a building is and tracing its history.

Asbestos Cement & Fiber Cement Fireproof Ceiling & Wall Panels

Asbestos-cement panels and later non-asbestos-containing fiber-cement panels were widely used as fireproof coverings for walls, ceilings, fifty-fifty floors in diverse applications such as in boiler rooms also equally in chemical laboratories and other areas where an inert, durable, burn-resistant surface was needed.

See CEMENT ASBESTOS SHEET PRODUCTS for the age, history of and details about cement-asbestos fireproof panels used in and on buildings.

History of Beaver Board & Upson Board Wall Coverings in North America

Beaver-board and Upson Board are a wood cobweb product used as an inexpensive interior wall covering and draft blocker from near 1903 when Beaver Board was invented by J.P. Lewis in Beaver Falls, NY, to the 1950s, with its about-twin production Upson Board continuing in use into at least the 1980'southward.

Our photographs (below) bear witness this production from it'southward dorsum or wall crenel side. On the exposed side this forest fiberboard production was commonly painted and its joints covered with wood lath or other trim.

In some applications Beaverboard or UpsonBoard was covered with wallpaper. Still later in the life of many buildings where Beaver Board was installed it was afterwards covered with drywall to provide a more fire-resistant surface.

Beaverboard takes its name from the Beaver N.Y. and the Beaver Board Companies that produced this product until that business firm was purchased by Certain Teed Prod cuts in 1928. Beaver Lath and Upson Board were produced by the Beaver Wood Fibre Company Limited, in Thorold, Ontario.

Beaver lath's competition was from Upson Processed lath (John Upson, Upson Visitor, Lockport, NY) which was produced beginning in 1910.

Equally late every bit the 1950's Upson Board was used in prefabricated houses and exterior building sheathing and in recreational vehicles.

Upson purchased the Beaver Lath plant from CertainTeed in 1955. Upson began its decline in the 1970'due south and closed in 1984, opening later that year as Niagara Fiberboard.

Beaverboard and other paper or fiberboard products were used for outside wall sheathing, as we testify in this photograph at left.

How to Identify Beaver Lath

Beaver Lath was marked on the dorsum of each sheet with an ink-stamped trademark and brand.

Details virtually BeaverBoard used on interior walls and ceilings are institute

at BEAVERBOARD in our article on edifice capsule materials identification.

Upson Lath Identification

Upson Lath, a medium-density fiberboard made from recycled forest fibers, embossed its marking into the board itself, and a "Blueish Center" (illustrated below thanks to one of our readers) runs through every piece of the board.

Encounter details now plant at

UPSON Lath - MDF used every bit interior sheathing and in many other applications from puzzles to oil paintings

Ceiling & Wall Covering Materials Using Plaster, Drywall / Gypsum Lath, or Stucco

This list of mutual ceiling and wall coverings is in order roughly by age or history of apply. Information technology is thus not in alphabetical order.

• Mud used as a plaster over carve up wood lath or woven wood board

  An example of mud plaster is below in this article

  at MUD PLASTER

• Horsehair mixed with plaster or cement for building exterior wall roofing.

  A photo of horse hair plaster is shown here, courtesy of an InspectApedia.com reader who had this fabric tested for asbestos - which was constitute to be absent.

  See PLASTER INGREDIENTS, MIX, COMPONENTS for details nigh this early on plaster material.

• Plaster of paris applied in at least two layers,a rough brown or scratch glaze and a smooth white plaster tiptop coat over paw split or sawn wood lath.

  Two coat and three-glaze plaster on board systems are detailed

  at PLASTER TYPES & METHODS in BUILDINGS

• Plaster wall or ceiling coverings of the same general formula was later applied

  over EXPANDED Metallic LATH

  Encounter PLASTER Type IDENTIFICATION for a photo guide to different plastering systems used in buildings for walls, ceilings, and fireproofing..

• Gypsum Board / Gyp-Rock / Stone Lath: Plasterboard with round holes punched at regular intervals substituted for the plaster scratch coat, nailed to wall studs, eliminating the wood lath requirement. A top coat of plaster was practical to the plaster lath.

  "Ears" of oozing plaster pushed through the round holes helped hold the plaster top glaze in place. Essentially synonymous are drywall, gyp rock, gypsum lath, plasterboard when used as a backer for a top glaze of plaster.

  For details about gypsum board used equally a plaster base of operations

  come across GYPSUM Lath LATH

Sackett Board

Higher up: probably Sackett Board, a USG production get-go produced by US Gypsum after USG's buy of the Sackett Plaster Board Company in 1909.

• Sackett Lath: Sackett Lath, showtime produced by the Sackett Plaster Board Company, was formed of multiple layers of paper and plaster such as the product shown in our reader photo to a higher place.

  The Sackett Board appears to have been meridian-coated with a layer of plaster.

  Sackett Board was probably the first gypsum-board product widely-used as a wall and ceiling roofing, typically tiptop coated with a cease-layer of plaster.

  See SACKETT BOARD for details.

• Stucco wall & ceiling coatings on interior surfaces may be installed every bit traditional stucco, a cementious product, or as a stucco wait-alike using textured paints or coatings including drywall or plaster.

  Run into SIDING EIFS & STUCCO - topic habitation, for a detailed commodity series about this material and its use on both exteriors and interiors of buildings.

• Drywall, a lighter gypsum formula, with joints taped with paper (afterwards fiberglass or plastic mesh) and coated with joint compound. Available in one/4", 3/8", 1/ii", and three/4" thickness, typically 4' x 8' or4' x 12'. Before drywall was secured with drywall nails;

  Modern drywall is secured to wall studs using machine-driven drywall screws or in some applications glue as well as drywall screws.

  The composition of modern drywall or gypsum lath is given

  at DRYWALL & GYPSUM BOARD

  Too run across DRYWALL IDENTIFICATION STAMPS

Gypsum Board Lath Sheets Used for Plaster Walls & Ceilings = Rock Lath, Plaster Lath, Stone Lathe & Button Board

Our photo (above left) shows perforated gypsum board panels that were used as plaster lath.

Solid gypsum board (to a higher place right, without holes) was too used equally a back up for a plaster stop glaze. Often this cloth was practical in two-foot widths - a characteristic that the inspector may spot by noticing scalloped ceilings and walls or even cracks that appear regularly on 24" centers.

According to some patent disclosures (given below on this page) non-perforated gypsum board panels used as a plaster base included versions with depressions or indentations to better-receive and adhere the plaster superlative coats.

At PLASTER TYPE IDENTIFICATION we include more-detailed discussion

of GYPSUM BOARD PLASTER Board SYSTEMS - perforated or solid gypsum boards as plaster base of operations:

"Stone lath", including the history of use of "rock lath" or perforated gypsum board or "button board" as a plaster base or lath-substitute fabric.

Expanded Mesh Metallic Board for Plaster Walls

Our photograph shows expanded mesh metal lath used as plaster board back up for ceilings and walls; this fabric was also used on building exterior walls to support a stucco cease. Metallic board was on occasion used also to support poured concrete ceilings (shown here) - unlikely to provide acceptable strength for a thick pour unless additional reinforcement was used.

Depending on building age nosotros may find a mixture of multiple types of plaster support, wood lath, gypsum board lath, and metal lath. Wall or ceiling or stucco crack patterns may follow the borders of metal lath segments, specially if the board was not deeply nailed.

Meet PLASTER LATH, Metal for details about the types, uses, & installation of expanded metal lath.

See PLASTER Blazon IDENTIFICATION for details about plaster used in or on buildings. .

Masonite™ and Other Hardboard Interior Wall & Ceiling Products: Identification

Masonite hardboard panels are often constitute as a utility cladding in buildings on walls and ceilings. This article explains the utility usage of hardboard interior products, and nosotros exclude woods or wood-like wall or ceiling paneling products.

Those are discussed

at HISTORY of the USE of WOOD & OTHER WALL PANELING in North America.

History, more photos, & dates of the invention, production, & use of Masonite™ and like hardboard products are

at HARDBOARD MASONITE™ & OTHER BRANDS

Bathroom & Kitchen Laminated Hardboard Panels

Laminated Masonite® and other hardboard products accept been widely used as water-resistant panels to cover walls and sometimes ceilings in bathrooms, kitchens, and other piece of work areas.

A difficult thin plastic laminate was applied to the hardboard surface to simulate marble, tile, or other materials.

Laminated hardboard was widely used in other applications too, including baby piece of furniture, lab surfaces, RVs, cabins, ornamental wall wall coverings simulating tile, in various pre-fabricated structures, and even in some car door panels and plane panels.

Cleverly the U.S. regular army used a shipping crate for latrine parts that combined tempered Masonite or the like panels that formed a lining to convert the shipping crate to a latrine enclosure. (Sheffield 1955).

Above: laminated hardboard as a bath tub surround in an older U.South. home. Scratches or nicks in the surface of the hardboard allow water to penetrate, causing the dark brown ringed stains at this tub surround.

Other water penetration in older hardboard wall coverings can crusade the formation of a roughened or rippled surface.

When water harm is astringent the hardboard softens, swells, and may leak into the wall cavity.

See also Identify Masonite™ and other hardboard Sheet and Siding Building Materials

Because of its lighter weight and alternative production ways hardboard-based wall and ceiling coverings found a place where previously cementious products such every bit asbestos cement or subsequently cobweb cement board was used on walls and ceilings every bit a fireproof wallboard.

Also see CEMENT ASBESTOS Sail PRODUCTS

Below: another coated Masonite® type hardboard used around a bath tub.

History, Research, Examples of Unitized Bathroom Wall & Ceiling Coverings & Tub Surrounds Using Coated or Laminated-Surface Hardboard

• Tenunon, Charles G., "Edifice unit." U.S. Patent 2,130,911, issued September 20, 1938.[Using cementious material or cobweb cement or asbestos cement board - a forerunner to the products discussed higher up]

  Excerpts:
  It has been proposed heretofore to class building units to simulate brick of regular outline with horizontally and vertically extending mortar spaces or mortar simulating lines simply such constructions are not capable of use in simulating textile of irregular outline such as the uneven edges of stone, rubble or broken slate.

  It has likewise been proposed to course shingles and siding with irregular edges merely these edges are complimentary and tend to curl upwardly or to exist displaced by the air current.

  Flooring such as linoleum is sometimes formed to simulate broken flagstones or the similar only such materials are expensive and are non adapted for use on open porches or in courtyards and similar locations where it is exposed to the weather.

• Nilson, Stanley E., "Shower cabinet." U.S. Patent 2,423,722, issued July 8, 1947. This patent was originally assigned to the Fiat Metal Mfg. Co. describing an before sheet-metal shower enclosure.
• Sheffield, Frederick T., "Shipping crate for latrine fixtures convertible into complementary latrine structure." U.S. Patent 2,712,164, issued July 5, 1955.
• Gick, James Due east., "Ornamental tile and method of fabrication." U.S. Patent 2,982,042, issued May two, 1961. [Using ceramic tile bonded to Masonite type hardboard]
  Excerpts:
  In the conventional construction of a tile panel having a relief pattern with a mosaic groundwork, for case, the relief design is incorporated in ane or more than ceramic plaques much larger than the private mosaic bodies, and the plaque or plaques are cemented to a base fellow member along with the mosaic background bodies.

  Such a construction is relatively expensive for a number of reasons.

  
  ...
  As heretofore stated, the relief design D is customarily embodied ina-'=ceramic plaque which is also bonded to the base member, beingness fabricated of linocellulose hard board which is commercially bachelor under the trade proper name Masonite.
• King, Bernie Due east., "Unitized bathroom construction." U.Due south. Patent three,110,907, issued November xix, 1963. This patent was assigned to the Rohr Corporation.
  Excerpt:

  As may best be seen in FIGS. 3, iv-and 8, the bottom of tub twenty is reinforced with a tempered Masonite'board'57 so that any weight concentrations practical to the bottom surface 56 of the tub are evenly distributed over its surface expanse.

  In the tub floor construction as shown, a reinforced plastic layer is applied to a higher place and below the Masonite board 57, the upper layer "56 of which is formed meantime with the fabrication of the aforementioned gel coat 43 and reinforced layer 47 of plastic shell 28.

  The Masonite lath '57 is and so applied to this initial plastic layer 56 and the additional layer, or outer plastic bottom layer 58 of the tub, is thereafter applied to the lath 57 to thus completely encapsulate the board within the reinforced plastic.

• Wokas, Albert L., "Prefabricated bathrooms and prefabricated restrooms." U.South. Patent 3,162,863, issued Dec 29, 1964.
  Excerpts:
  
  This invention relates to the prefabrication of rooms, especially restrooms which may or may non incorporate baths. It is especially concerned with the prefabrication of 2 restrooms which are built together as a single unit package ready for installation in a building.

  These parcel units are fabricated upward of walls, floors, ceilings, doors, and completely equipped interiors, including all the plumbing fixtures, water lines, and waste lines in place, tested and prepare for use when the packet units are delivered to the sites.

• Dobija, Michael J. "Tub surround." U.S. Patent iv,109,426, issued Baronial 29, 1978. This patent was assigned to the Masonite Corporation. Extract:

  A tub surround includes first and second identical corner sections and first, second and 3rd identical panel portions. The tub surround is assembled by positioning a beginning panel between the two corner sections thereby defining one wall. The remaining panel sections are joined with each of the corner portions to define 2nd and tertiary walls.

  Each corner department includes first and second legs extending at right angles from each other.

  The ends of the legs extending from the corner sections prevarication on a airplane parallel to and separated from the plane of each side thereby defining a joint behind which the edges of the panels may be positioned. The corner sections farther include shelves extending between the legs of the corner sections.

@Ty:

If past "safe to phone call this wall covering asbestos" you mean" is it very likely that I'g right and it'due south an asbestos material: my answer is no, nosotros have no basis to know what that cloth is from your photograph alone,

but

If by "safe" you lot mean "am I erring on the rubber side by treating an unknown wall-covering fake tiles every bit asbestos" - sure, it's ever "safer" to treat an unknown material as possibly chancy.

If you expect at the material more-closely you lot may run into that it is really a forest-based fiberboard or hardboard product laminated with a plastic or vinyl peel to resemble tile - equally that was a very common wall covering.

At our description of Masonite-type hardboard products constitute

at HARDBOARD MASONITE™ & OTHER BRANDS

we include the1960s magazine advertisement for interior bathroom Masonite™ temprtile wallboard shown above. Temprtile was a hardboard-backed wall coverd with a laminated plastic "skin" covering simlating ceramic tile, installed by gluing sheets of the surfaced hardboard to the original walls.

At our description [above on this page]

we note that

Laminated Masonite® and other hardboard products take been widely used as water-resistant panels to cover walls and sometimes ceilings in bathrooms, kitchens, and other work areas.

A hard sparse plastic laminate was applied to the hardboard surface to simulate marble, tile, or other materials.

Meanwhile, take a closer look at the edge or at any points of wear or damage to see if yous can identify brown woody fibrous backerboard - and attach a sharp photo of what y'all notice here equally a page bottom "Comment".

Watch out: some floor and wall covering adhesives also contained asbestos - avoid making a dusty mess.

Those details are at ASBESTOS-CONTAINING MASTIC Dangerous?

Is it safe to say that this material contains asbestos? Might exist difficult to tell from merely one image

@Ty,

Sure it's safe to embrace that sometime faux-tile wall material, but take care beginning to satisfy yourself that there were no leaks into the wall cavities as there could be a subconscious mold problem; the time to discover and clean up any leak impairment is exactly at present rather than later when the bathroom has been finished.

Starting time time dwelling buyer and bought a business firm that was built in the 1930'due south and remodeled around 1960. We have seen there is asbestos flooring in parts of the house but my question is about a recent finding during a bath demo. The blueish tile is in a sheet of vinyl with no specific dimensions. Information technology has a circular or flower like agglutinative on the dorsum of the sheet. Is it prophylactic to say this is asbestos? Is it safe to cover?

[Photograph above]

This Q&A on possible asbestos in faux or "imitation" bathroom or kitche wall tiles was posted originally

at ASBESTOS FLOORING IDENTIFICATION

Interlocking Plastic Wall Tiles

Some 1950s and 1960s "faux" bathroom and kitchen walls were covered using interlocking plastic tiles produced by companies using this new "infinite-age" cloth

Shown here is "Pittsburgh Interlock Plastic Wall Tile" outset patented in 1943 (Pauli) and popular in North America from the 1940s through 1960s, probably most-frequently as a retrofit wall covering in existing bathrooms when homeowners got tired of repairing or re-painting water-damaged walls.

Plastic interlocking kitchen and bath tiles were, maybe, a more than-durable alternative to HARDBOARD BATHROOM & KITCHEN PANELS in areas where h2o splashing was likely.

In the U.S., Pittsburgh enjoyed a long and historic role in the development of bath and kitchen wall tiles in the U.S., making information technology no accident that the Pittsburgh Interlocking Plastic Wall Tile product originated there.

While the offset ceramic tiles in the U.S. were probably produced past the US Pottery in Bennington, Vermont, information technology was the Pittsburg Encaustic Tile Visitor who had the start commercial success with ceramic wall tiles beginning in 1876.

These key patent disclosures help us assign possible dates to homes where plastic interlocking wall tiles are or were used. For quondam firm restorers who like plastic wall tiles y'all may find some of these products still for sale as "antique" edifice products on spider web-stores similar e-Bay.

• Pauli, Jr Charles D. WALL TILE [PDF] U.South. Patent two,323,417, issued July vi, 1943.

  Excerpt: My invention has for its primary object the provision, as a new article of manufacture, of a compact, light-weight, durable tile of homogeneous synthetic plastic, which may exist conveniently applied to and upon a wall, which is uniquely provided with interlocking members for enabling rigid, h2o-proof securement of the tiles together and in place on a wall, which may be efiiciently and economically fabricated by high-product molding methods and to substantially any desired shape without distortion and strain, and which is highly satisfactory in the performance of its intended functions.

  [Editor'due south note: my mother Teal, entertaining herself while expecting, glued tiles like this to what was my future bathroom wall after I was produced in September of the same year.]

• Brown, Richard G. INTERLOCKING WALL TILE [PDF] U.Southward. Patent two,490,577, issued December 6, 1949, filed by and assigned to the Pittasburgh Plastic Tile Company
  Excerpt:

  The tiles preferably are made of a plastic suc has polystyrene although they may exist fabricated of other materials. The tiles are affixed to a wall by applying a gob of mastic cement to the rear face of the tile and pressing the tile against a wall.

• Lopina, Joseph J. INTERLOCKING PLASTIC TILE [PDF] U.S. Patent 2,627,744, issued February 10, 1953.

  Excerpt: It is an object of this invention to provide tile which dispenses with the need for the mastic defining beadsv between the bordering tiles thereby eliminating the expensive wiping performance and enabling the utilise of cheaper mastics every bit essentially all of the mastic used in the mounting of my novel tile is concealed by the tile themselves.

• Luster, Carl J., and Richard G. Brown. INTERLOCKING WALL TILE [PDF] U.Due south. Patent 2,693,102, issued November 2, 1954. filed by and assigned to the Pittasburgh Plastic Tile Company
  Excerpt:
  The present invention relates to interlocking wall tile and more especially to improvements in the construction and shape of the tile and the interlocking formations thereof. Interlocking tile as heretofore commercialized is illus trated past Us Messages Patent 2,323,417, issued July 6, 1943, to Charles D. Pauli, Jr., and ii,490,577, issued December 6, 1949, to Richard G. Dark-brown.

Forest Lath Systems Supporting Plaster or Stucco in Older Homes: Hand split up vs. Sawn Wood Board

In a higher place and also in some other photograph shown earlier in this commodity series, we include a photograph of hand-split up wood lath and plaster wall, from the wall-crenel side of a U.Southward. home built effectually 1800. There are several generations of plaster and board, plaster board, and drywall which have been used in buildings.

Details almost the types of wood lath used to back up plaster or stucco on edifice walls, ceilings, or exteriors are

at WOOD Lath for PLASTER or STUCCO.

Inspecting old interior walls with care can yield interesting and peradventure useful historical data about the construction. Beneath I'grand demonstrating that this plaster-lath wall too sported four layers of wallpaper atop the originally-plastered wall surface.

History & Types of Woods and Wood-Production Wall Paneling in North America

Early Colonial Wall Paneling & Wainscoting

Early colonial paneling is described by Isham.

A concise history of wall coverings in residential buildings, more photos, & dates in procedure, CONTACT u.s., contributions invited.

Shown at left, colonial style wall paneling in the historic Suffolk Resolves House (1774) in Milton MA.

Wainscot Wall Covering

Definition: Wainscoting or "wainscot" is a woods wall stop practical to the lower portion of a building interior, typically about three to four feet up from floor level, and usually capped with a chair rail and ordinarily applied with lath edge joints butted vertically as in our photo.

Traditional wainscot is constructed by nailing individual boards to the wall surface. Modern "wainscot" panels are sold in iv' x viii' sheets and cutting to fit, producing a beadboard surface that looks like traditional wainscot.

Wainscot is an old term, possibly from the 1300's, that in its contemporary usage derives from the British Wainscot, "a fine grade of oak imported for woodwork" - Merriam Webster.

In North America wainscot has been in employ since the colonial era.

Our photo (left) illustrates beadboard blazon wainscot wall paneling in a Victorian home congenital in Poughkeepsie, NY in 1900.

Wooden wall paneling - tongue and groove pine and other woods

Wooden wall paneling made of individual boards, often natural language-and-groove mutual or knotty pine, was most often nailed vertically from floor to ceiling and finished with wall trim at both of those levels.

In North America solid 3/iv" thick v-grooved vertical tongue-and-groove pino paneling on building interior walls was specially popular from about 1945 through the 1960'south.

Above: iii/4" thick pine boards installed as pine paneling by the author in a Poughkeepsie NY home.

Tin someone please tell me the name of this dated wall finishing technique and maybe suggestions on how to update information technology without taking away from its character? Thanks very much

Georgette,

I run into custom wood wall paneling using horizontal boards made from rough-cutting lumber sawn to retain the original profile of the tree from which the boards were sawn; I take non found a special name for this custom design.

While there are other sliced wood wall hangings and paneling designs yours may be unique and in my stance well worth preserving.

Even so informal names include:

Wood-Slice wall paneling, Wood Tree Slice Wall Paneling, Sliced Log Wall Paneling, Horizontal Log Slice Wall Paneling.

For in-fill between the horizontal log slices we meet in your wooden wall paneling, it appears that solid wood, probably a laminate or plywood was used as a backer panel over which the horizontal log slices were glued or nailed.

Without knowing what you accept in mind by the word "update" I tin can't make a suggestion for reserving the walls equally shown other than to leave them alone. Certainly painting the surfaces or interlacing with drywall would be in my view a travesty.

You could consider changing the floor covering and furnishings to items more consonant with the room'southward original design.

In a most-extreme effort you could disassemble and lightly sand the log slices and all of the wood paneling to obtain a lighter color without giving upwardly the wood paneling design and its special rough-cut tree shape feature.

Delight tell united states of america the country and city where this building is located and the age of the building and its type.

Also take a look

Readers who accept more to say about this paneling are invited to POST a QUESTION or COMMENT beneath on this folio.

Wall paneling in 4' x 8' sheets

By the 1970'due south in the U.Due south. and Canada, the apply of solid tongue-and groove wall paneling was more often replaced past thinner 4' x 8' sheets of wood veneer paneling sections.

Shown in a higher place is a typical sparse plywood veneer type wall paneling installed in the 1970'due south. A curtailed history of veneer-type wall paneling in residential buildings, more photos, & dates in procedure, CONTACT united states, contributions invited.

Also see Capsule, FIBERBOARD ASBESTOS CONTENT

More examples of wood wall paneling designs are

at PANELING, Forest, OTHER where nosotros prove examples of custom wood paneling and horizontal log piece paneling.

Hardboard, MDF & Composite Wall Paneling

A wide range of more than 50 pop shine, textured, and grooved hardboard wall paneling products sold in sheets, typically 4' x 8' continues in popular use in North America, Australia, New Zeland, and Europe. Similar to plywood-based forest paneling, hardboard panels are provided in diverse surface designs and colors of which a few examples are shown in a higher place, excerpted from Lowes building supply website in 2021.

Similar interior wall and ceiling panels of softer MDF and fiberboard have been in popuar use since at lest the 1940s. A modern example, in "raw" or un-coated form, is shown below.

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Above: three detailed photos of MDF paneling every bit provided past Canadian supplier EliteTrimworks

The panels above are also used in cabinetry and other interior applications.

Like wall paneling produccts are sold then in these categories, all similar in external or finished appearance:

• FRP / Fibergoass-Reinforced Plastic Panels
• Hardboard wall & ceiling panels
• Polyurethane wall & ceiling panels, faux marble and other surface appearances
• PVC wall & ceiling panels
• 5-Grooved Raw MDF paneling similar the product shown above, from EliteTrimworks (elitetrimworks.com)
• Vinyl wall panels
• Wainscoting Panels - beadboard, of whatsoever of these materials
• Forest or plywood-based wall & ceiling panels

Current installation methods for these wall or ceiling panels

• Adhesive-ony paneling
• Adhesive and rivet paneling
• Nails and adhesive paneling
• Blast-up paneling
• Pare-and stick paneling

MDF Paneling Resources

• EliteTrimworks, 25 Purple Group Cres #8 in Woodbridge (Toronto), ON., L4H 1X9 (on the SW corner of Hwy vii & Hwy 27) Price Gratuitous 888-898-1665 Website: https://world wide web.elitetrimworks.com/ Tel: 905.760.1665
• Georgia Pacific, DECORATIVE WALL PANEL INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS [PDF] (2009) retrieved 2021/02/08 original source: https://images.homedepot-static.com/catalog/pdfImages/3a/3aaa9eb1-fc8c-41d8-9d0c-bb37963be415.pdf
• WallDesign, MDF WALL Console Utilise & Care INSTRUCTIONS [PDF] retrieved 2021/02/08 original source: https://images.homedepot-static.com/catalog/pdfImages/1e/1ed66aa5-4780-4c2b-a0d8-0272830fd84f.pdf
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Wood-Board Plaster Systems

Above photo shows the more-regular width sawn wood lath used to back up plaster in a home synthetic ca 1865. Details about wood-lath plaster systems are

at WOOD Board for PLASTER or STUCCO - separate article

Drywall Composition, Ingredients, History

This information is now on its own page:

DRYWALL & GYPSUM BOARD

Identifying Stamps on Drywall Used for Interior Wall & Ceiling Surfaces

This give-and-take has moved to this split up page:

DRYWALL IDENTIFICATION STAMPS

Also see boosted drywall identifying number stamps constitute

at DRYWALL GYPSUM Board Used for Exterior Wall Capsule.

Where at that place indoor ecology concerns or corrosion impairment to electrical wiring, copper pipes, air conditioning equipment, etc. be sure to

see CHINESE DRYWALL HAZARDS.

Drywall Gypsum Board Used for Exterior Wall Sheathing

Details are noq at EXTERIOR Utilise GYPSUM Board

and at SHEATHING, GYPSUM BOARD

Also see DRYWALL MOLD RESISTANT for an interior drywall reported to resist mold growth.

Reader Q&A - also see the FAQs series linked-to beneath

@Brandy Billington,

Is the back of that fabric blackness cobblestone-like impregnated newspaper?

Is the material very newspaper-sparse or is it thick like linoleum floor? (It looks like an asphalt-backed sheet flooring or asphalt-paper backed wallpapr)

What is its thickness? Show me an edge and a back view.

Trying to determine what this is. The house is 70yrs old and originally done in shiplap.

And then this was placed over it with possibly wall paper then forest paneling.. Earlier I dig into information technology more, I would just like to know what it is.

Thank you very much for your help!

I'k pretty sure that that is a medium density fiberboard paneling.

This is what the dorsum of the paneling looks similar if information technology helps whatsoever..

I believe the house was built in 1976. Non sure that's when paneling went up though. I didn't measure it, will mensurate when we become back next calendar week to do more work on the firm, but if I had to gauge, I'd say 1/ii" or a little less. It'due south not particularly difficult, bent a bit with crowbar before breaking. Not sure yous tin can tell, but it has a forest grain look to information technology.

Adding:

If you know the age of the paneling that would be helpful.

Hi, we recently purchased a home built in 1976. The owner did some quirky things. I'm trying to find out what this paneling is and if it could have asbestos in it. Give thanks you lot very much for whatsoever help!

Cheers Jake, that sure looks like a single slice of drywall or gypsum board.

We can simply recall that you have spotted a disontinuity in the product run mix of filler. That sort of thing does happen in manufacturing as we've seen in a range of products such every bit asphalt roofing. The product line runs continuously just the mix of incoming ingredients may vary.

Simply from the 1970s finding animal hair in what looks like conventional drywall would exist quite odd.

That'southward surely an older plasterboard.

Asbestos was used in some but not all such products so, unfortunately, from eyeballing it alone we tin can't say if your plasterboard contains asbestos.

If you discover any stampings or markings or remains of an identifying paper strip, often institute at the ends of the drywall, that'd be interesting, simply information technology looks every bit if all that was torn off.

For other readers:

Above a closeup of the gypsum board or drywall or plasterboard we're discussing, excerpted from Jake's before photo.

Hither is a picture of the whole piece. The perspective is looking up at the floor joists in the basement.

The board is sandwiched betwixt the HVAC ductwork and the joists. It is 1/two" thick and the paper is actually thick and has a fine nearly woven/dimpled texture.

One of my thoughts is that it is a heat-resistant production given where they installed it.

That said, there are a lot of crude patches in this house, so this may merely be a random sheet of edifice material they used to provide a surface to mount the gas line to the furnace. The board could be as former as the late 70s, when the original furnace was put in.

Even if information technology is a gypsum production that only looks weird on 1 cease, are there whatever former gypsum lath products that incorporate hair-like material in the core?

Interesting: the ii ends look like different materials and different ages.

Are y'all confident yous're looking at two ends of the exact-same cloth - with no butted, maybe hidden, seam or articulation?

Thank y'all! I have attached a 2nd image showing the other exposed cross-section, which appears to exist a gypsum-like fabric with no fibrous elements (compared to the grayness section in the other end, which appeared to take some kind of embedded fiber).

Does the variation across the two exposed ends (2 different materials visible on 1 side and 1 material visible on the other) suggest a manufacturing defect (maybe it was supposed to be two layers throughout)?

That departure is what threw me off.

The house is from 1900 in Mansfield, MA, United states.

This is the only identify in the house where I have institute this material.

The walls that I take worked on are either lath-and-plaster or mod drywall hung over the old lath.

Thank you for the photo and plaster lath question, Jake;

That looks like a plaster board that was used to back up a finish coat (the white layer) of plaster as a substitute for wood or metal board.

See PLASTER TYPES & METHODS in BUILDINGS

for identification keys, photos, guides.

Also let us know the state and urban center and age and blazon of building in your photo.

I have come across what I think is a wall roofing product in my basement that seems different from everything discussed here. The just place it is used is sandwiched between the hot air supply duct and the floor joists to a higher place.

It has thick brown paper and the material inside appears to be variable.

On i exposed finish information technology looks similar there is a layer of horsehair plaster and a layer of gypsum (all encased in the paper) yet the other exposed end looks like a unproblematic gypsum core.

I would like to remove it and so I tin can clean up the expanse around and above my furnace and appropriately address whatever deficiency this seemingly slapdash effort was intended to ready (a lot of that in this firm...) , but I would like to know what I am dealing with first.

If possible, I will post a few more pictures. If I can practice only 1, this is the exposed end that appears to show two unlike discrete materials sandwiched between the brown newspaper.

Dick

I apologize for having to give a glib-sounding respond but sure, paneling of all sorts has been used in buildings to encompass all sorts of conditions for centuries.

There is specific reason to assume that paneling is being used to cover asbestos unless we know more than about the building, its construction, materials, history of environmental concerns and events.

Was Panelling used to cover Abestos in bldgs in the tardily 1960s. And is the picture attached a h2o leak.

I'm doubtful that y'all're glue volition bond successfully to those surfaces only you probably could hold the fiberboard or other insulation in place with furring strips

My husband purchased his grandparents domicile that was built in the mid 70s. It has a detached garage that was finished on the inside. When we had them re-sided, my step son's crew damaged the exterior sheets of fiberboard when pulling off the onetime siding on the garage.

This "fiberboard" is like cardboard crossed with corkboard.

It is soft. I don't really know what to call it. Anyway, when attaching the new siding, they didn't always hit studs, so there are loose nails and holes where it broke through.

I want to utilise the leftover insulation boards cut down to fit in between the studs, merely I know that the nails will probably push button out. Tin can I glue them to keep them in identify?

Priceton

That looks as if a plaster skim coat is failing over the plaster brown coat. The crack pattern suggests that the failure is due to either high interior moisture (a subconscious leak somewhere?) or poor original piece of work.

Remove all of the loose cloth and if the base of operations surface is audio and secure, then re-plaster the surface beneath.

Paints peeling off this material in entire dwelling house. What is it and can information technology be refinished

I'one thousand remodeling a basement storage room that had h2o damage from in a higher place principal-floor leaking window, poor roof gutter design and probably some adjacent unfinished crawl space moisture.

Previous owner semi-improved part of UNF basement into storage room with cheap (70s style) 4x8 woods veneer paneling.

Working with Insurance visitor, which says they volition but reimburse for original wall paneling unless I tin show that paneling does non run into current building codes.

Does the old wood paneling still satisfy typical residential building and remodel lawmaking requirements ?

Would similar to merely replace with moisture/mold resistant drywall/hardi-board etc.

Any other thoughts and considerations would be appreciated.

That looks similar brushed cedar paneling; A wire brush is used to remove the soft woods, leaving the exposed hardwood as raised ridges.

Lookalikes were manufactured of other materials besides.

I am trying to identify the type of wood console this is in our upstairs room.

Nancyh0001@gmail.com

I can see much but information technology looks like a fiberboard production. See details

at FIBERBOARD Capsule IDENTIFICATION .

Tin anyone give me information on this textile thank you

Anon:

Mostly cellulose - wood-based products don't contain asbestos though there were some exceptsions, probably traced to cross-contagion, discussed

at SHEATHING, FIBERBOARD ASBESTOS CONTENT

that could also appear in an interior wall product.

Does wood paneling 4*8 grooved with a difficult surface which resembles wood stop information technology looks like it is laminated to partilce board year 1968 and is nailed to the interior walls in my hallway in my firm practice these panels contain asbestos?

Does wood veneer type panels from from yr 1968 which is nailed to the interior wall in my hallway incorporate asbestos?

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