Green Drywall Alternatives Not Ready for Prime Time

Posted May 31, 2009 02:45 by Robert

Tags: greenboard, green drywall, sheetrock, eco board, ecorock

It has been a very productive week with the blueboard and plaster teams making a lot of progress. This is one area of the project where I felt like there was not a viable green alternative that I was comfortable using throughout the house. There are some interesting new drywall products just hitting the market such as EcoRock, but many of these are new products don’t have any long term testing and they can be 3-5 times the prices of regular drywall, making  them budget busters for the average consumer.  A lot of people are also using George Pacific’s new  DensArmor paperless drywall, but it really doesn’t have a viable option for skim coat plaster which is a much nicer, consistent finish.

Within the next few years, I am sure that there will be many more cost effective green options for drywall and plaster for the average customer. However, this is an example of an area where we were not comfortable paying an enormous premium on an unproven product that will make up a such a pervasive component of the house and which is not easily replaced. At current prices, green drywall alternatives are really not viable for most builders and homeowners for new construction or large renovations, outside of the very high end of the market. 

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