RE/SE board helps builders create a modern look
17 May, 2012
As housing trends are towards clean, sleek lines, CSR has developed Gyprock™ Recessed Edge/Square Edge (RE/SE), to help builders achieve this look in a more cost effective way
Standard plasterboard is recessed on both edges. With the narrower skirtings and cornices that designers often want to produce a cleaner, more spacious look, this can create a problem with exposed recesses. With regular plasterboard, to avoid this, contractors have to fill the recess of buy wider sheets and trim off the recess. Both solutions are costly.
Gyprock™ RE/SE is a new wider board with a recessed edge on one side for smooth, continuous jointed surfaces and a square edge on the other for a closer fit to ceiling and floor, with no risk of exposed recesses near cornices or skirtings.
Gyprock™ RE/SE can be used for narrower skirtings and ShadowSet™ applications, the latest in architectural fashion.
As shown in the pictures below, Gyprock™ RE/SE provides a better edge for contemporary cornices as there is no risk of recess showing with Gyprock RE/SE.
Recess can show 10mm on RE/RE Board with 55mm cove cornice
Use 55mm Cove with no worries about exposed recess. Perfectly suites to square set, P50 and Shadowset™ applications
Gyprock RE/SE also provides a better edge for modern skirtings.
Recess can show on 10 mm RE/RE board with narrow skirting and skirtings can ‘kick in’
No risk of skirtings ‘kicking in’ and no kick of recess showing on even the narrowest skirting
The reaction to Gyprock™ RE/SE board has been extremely positive with many builders and contractors welcoming the product. “We like the new RE/SE board and we use it wherever we can.” says David Morabito, Director of the Morabito Wall lining company. The new product saves time and effort. In the old days, we had to get down on our hands and knees and set out the recess, or just pray that the builder would have larger skirting that would cover it. But we now go with the RE/SE board and that has removed the problem.”
Another advantage of Gyprock™ RE/SE is that it can provide cost savings of up to $200 per house, as narrower skirtings are less expensive. There is also less risk of call backs due to exposed recesses. For most homes with typical frame heights, there is only one horizontal joint, with no need for recesses on both sides. Gyprock™ RE/SE retails at the same price as standard plasterboard, so the changeover is painless.
Gyprock™ RE/SE is becoming the new standard for walls for many builders. . This helps builders create the current housing trend of a more modern finish by eliminating the problem of exposed recesses.
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