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What is a dry wall rasp used for?

What is a dry wall rasp used for?

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Stud wall made of wooden batons and plasterboard Plasterboard is used to create hollow internal walls (also known as stud partitions, stud walls and dry wall) quickly and for less cost than building a solid block wall.

Plasterboard is also used to line the inside of exterior walls.

Plasterboard with bonded insulation backing can help insulate and improve the thermal efficiency of a building. Plasterboard with a bonded insulation backing can be used on the inside of exterior walls to help insulate them and improve the thermal efficiency of a building. If fitted well, wallpaper can be applied straight over plasterboard, without the need for plaster, saving time and money.
Plasterboard being used to construct a dry wall But to create a quality finished wall the plasterboard sheets need to accurately butt up to each other and fit around windows, doors, switches and sockets. Although jointing tape and compound are used to cover the joins of the plasterboard, the better the joins between the plasterboard, the less visible they will be and less likely to develop cracks once covered with jointing tape and compound.
Filing down the edge of a cut piece of plasterboard with a dry wall rasp. A dry wall rasp is used on the edges of cut plasterboard to give a smoother finish, allowing the cut sheet of plasterboard to fit more accurately up against the other sheets or around windows, doors, switches and sockets. This means you can create a better quality finished wall.

What other uses are there for dry wall rasps?

One of the other uses of a dry wall rasp is in model making The other potential uses for a dry wall rasp will depend on the type of rasp and what sort of blade it has.
Two-handled dry wall rasp being used to shape a clay model of a motorbike tank. Dry wall rasps with fine teeth have several other uses. They can be used in model making for shaping foam or clay models, and ones with hardened steel blades can be used for filing plastics, wood and even soft metals such as aluminium.
Fine and coarse toothed blades of dry wall rasps Rasps with coarse teeth have fewer additional uses as the coarse tooth design cuts into a workpiece more, which prevents them being used on harder materials such as metal, plastic and many woods.
Pocket dry wall rasps without guide rails can be used for more things than a dry wall rasp with guide rails. Due to their smaller size, pocket dry wall rasps have more additional uses than larger two-handled rasps. However, ones with guide rails are limited in what other applications they can be used for as the rails can prevent the blade making contact with what you want to file.
Dry wall rasps can be used for grating and zesting foods such as oranges The most obvious other use for a dry wall rasp is for grating food. Rasps with a coarse-toothed blade can grate foods such as cheese, carrots or courgettes into strips, while fine-toothed blades can be used to finely grate things such as hard cheese, nutmeg, ginger and chocolate, along with zesting fruit such as lemons, limes and oranges.
Wonkee Donkee says: "It’s probably best not to use a dry wall rasp on food after you have used it on plasterboard, unless you like the taste of plaster dust in your food."

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