Whether gypsum plaster can be used as a building decorative material?

    A number of plasters are used in plastering, among them gypsum plaster offers better advantages, in terms of smooth finish coat, strength, curing time, good insulation, shrinkage crack resistant, light weight and resistant to fire. Gypsum plaster, is a typically cheaper material.

    Building gypsum is used as heating resistant, moisture preserving, sound absorbing and fire proofing material. As a building decorative material, it is widely used in ceiling and partition projects. Building gypsum can be used to manufacture concrete, high strength gypsum sticky powder, whitewashing gypsum, and all kinds of gypsum plates (such as thistle boards and decorative gypsum boards etc.), gypsum curlicues and pillar ornaments etc. Building gypsum and its products are largely used in projects such as finishing mortar, wall-surface putty, model making, anaglyphic products, plasterboard partitions and ceilings etc.
    Decorative panels are produced with high-strength building gypsum and polymer-modified gypsum. They are used for interior decoration.
    Gypsum plasters are used for interior finishing. Prefabricated mixtures of dry components are normally ‘dry packed’ as one component. They are mixed with water at the construction site immediately before application. According to their use, gypsum plasters can be divided, for example, into plastering (undercoat or finishing), spackling and flooring (self-levering).
    Plastering mixtures usually consist of non-water-resistant β and α-hemihydrates, water-resistant (gypsum-cement-pozzolanic) binders, fine-grained aggregates less than 2.5 mm in size, special chemical admixtures and mineral additions. They are used to smooth different surfaces: brickwork and normal-weight and lightweight concrete. Spackling plasters contain fine-grained fillers and are used for filling holes and for smoothing surface defects. Because of the rapid hardening of gypsum, spackling plasters permit finishing work to begin after only a few hours of hardening. Flooring (self-levering) plasters include α-hemihydrates, anhydrite, water-resistant binders and water-reducing and water retaining admixtures. Masonry plasters are used for masonry work on partition panels, on basement floors (non-water-resistant binders) and on walling blocks (water- resistant binders).
    With various investigations and studies conducted it is evident that gypsum plaster can be used as building decorative material. Gypsum plaster is the cheapest acoustic controlling material for our buildings, which can automatically provide a clean, clear and healthy environment in our spaces we live in.

    One of the best advantages of gypsum plaster, that impress a common man is, the touch and feel factor. One will be mesmerized to see the finish and feel the difference once he/she touches the gypsum plastered surface. The temperature of the surface will be cool enough that one will say, this is AWSOME!