dry walling
- noun
- /draɪ ˈwɔːlɪŋ/
- Specialized
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instalación de paneles de yeso
- After removing the old lath, they started dry walling the upstairs bedrooms that afternoon.
Examples
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Skilled carpenters often handle the metal framing used in dry walling to ensure level walls.
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The contractor scheduled the dry walling for next week before painting began.
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He specializes in dry walling for new homes.
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The dry walling process is quite complex.
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The contractor scheduled the dry walling for the new office space to create separate work areas.
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After removing the old lath, they began dry walling the upstairs bedrooms to improve insulation.
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He specializes in dry walling, ensuring that all joints are expertly finished for a smooth surface.
How Finished
Surface Forms
Morphology
The core idea—work involving walls using a ‘dry’ (non-wet) technique—is reasonably derivable from combining 'dry' + 'wall', and many speakers will recognise 'drywall' as the building material (so 'drywalling' = working with drywall). However, the full technical sense (gypsum/plasterboard panels, taping and joint finishing) is specialized and not fully predictable from the constituents alone, and the POS mismatch (wall as noun vs. provided verb sense) may confuse learners, so it is only partially transparent.
Etymology
Dry walling here comes from using ready-made, dry boards to make inside walls instead of wet plaster: the panels are already dry, so workers fix, tape and finish the joins to make a smooth surface. So, dry walling means 'installing drywall panels and finishing joints'.