wallboard

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Concrete and drywall producer Eagle Materials said last week that higher fuel costs lifted its wallboard freight expense more than $2 per thousand square feet during its fiscal fourth quarter.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 26, 2026

One customer who runs a construction business sent his employees to help replace plastic wallboard.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Fascinating fact: When subsequent owners ripped out the plaster to put in wallboard, a teenage neighbor asked if he could take a chunk of the material.

From Washington Post • Sep. 5, 2019

People pulled out the flood-ravaged contents of their homes and piled them at the curb in mounds rising roughly six feet high in some cases: refrigerators, carpets, wallboard, sofas, cabinets, drawers, luggage, picture frames.

From New York Times • Sep. 3, 2017

It’s even part of the supermarket building, because the wallboard, the flooring, and many other building materials are made with corn.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan