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Can the kitchen and bathroom ceiling be gypsum board?

Can the kitchen and bathroom ceiling be gypsum board?

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Gypsum board tide, can not be used in the bathroom, kitchen ceiling
Gypsum board due to chemical composition is not waterproof mainly used in the living room or aisle on the ceiling, kitchen and bathroom mainly aluminum plate or plastic steel and PVC three kinds of material (note that the aluminum plate is not aluminum gusset plate) General kitchen and toilet recommended with aluminum slab board, and now the market is now popular integrated ceiling is also a good ceiling material
Kitchen and bathroom ceiling can also be used with gypsum! Although beautiful and beautiful. But that effect can not hold long, it is easy to damp, fade. 1 - 2 years there will be local peeling. And bad maintenance, upgrade very troublesome!
Now a lot of moisture gypsum board, kitchen, bathroom we often do, you can use, you can also consider using TK board, but also moisture. Like Taishan, Lafarge, dragon card, can be resistant and other brands have moisture-proof series
Kitchen and toilet ceiling with gypsum board is possible. However, the bathroom and the kitchen to use gypsum board ceiling, it is recommended to choose waterproof gypsum board. Ordinary gypsum board ceiling products have a good overall, easy to shape, smooth and beautiful features, but it is most afraid of wet, home improvement effect is not good, used in the kitchen ceiling, perennial smoke easy to yellow. Waterproof gypsum board refers to the slab in the United States under the ASTM standard for waterproofing test, the water absorption rate of 5%, that can be used for large areas of humidity, such as the bathroom, shower room and kitchen, the board is in the gypsum core Material to add a quantitative waterproofing agent, so that the plaster itself has a certain waterproof performance. In addition, gypsum board paper is also waterproof, so this is a better use of a wider range of plate. But this board can not be directly exposed to the wet environment, nor direct water immersion for a long time.

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