Description

Standard Plasterboard – 2.4m x 1.2m x 12.5mm: Your Foundation for Smooth Interior Walls

Create flawless, durable interior surfaces with our Standard Plasterboard, measuring 2.4 metres by 1.2 metres with a thickness of 12.5mm. This versatile and widely used board provides the essential base for painting, wallpapering, or other decorative finishes, making it the go-to choice for walls and ceilings in residential and commercial projects. Other thicknesses and specifications of plasterboard are available from stock at Cartmore.

Key Features:

• Standard Dimensions for Versatility: The common 2.4m x 1.2m size (8ft x 4ft approximately) is ideal for efficient coverage of walls and ceilings, minimising cuts and waste.
• Optimal 12.5mm Thickness: This standard thickness offers a balance of strength, rigidity, and ease of handling. It provides a robust surface for general applications, capable of holding typical wall fixtures.
• Smooth Finish: Designed to provide a perfectly smooth and flat surface once jointed. Can also be skim coated if preferred. An ideal base for any decorative finish.
• Easy to Cut and Install: Plasterboard can be easily scored and snapped, making precise fitting straightforward. It can be fixed quickly using screws, nails, or adhesive to timber or metal frameworks.
• Thermal & Acoustic Properties: While a standard board, it offers basic thermal insulation properties and contributes to sound attenuation within a wall or ceiling system.
• Fire Resistance: Provides a level of fire resistance, helping to slow the spread of flames in a building.
• Durable & Stable: Forms a strong, stable, and long-lasting partition or ceiling, resisting cracking and movement when properly installed.

Ideal For:

• Internal wall linings in homes and commercial buildings.
• Ceiling construction in various rooms.
• Creating partitions and non-load bearing walls.
• General repair work and renovations.
• As a base for skimming plaster, paint, or wallpaper.

Who are Cartmore?

Cartmore Building Supplies, established in Lochgelly, Fife in 1986, has grown to become Fife’s largest independent builders’ merchant. With branches conveniently located in Lochgelly and Denny, we offer a top-class service complemented by quick and efficient deliveries from our own fleet.

We are unique among builders’ merchants due to our own bagging, blending, and washing facilities, which allow us to create a distinctive range of decorative aggregates and roughcasting chips. Our extensive product range includes heavy-side building materials such as landscaping materials, concrete blocks, bricks, roughcasting supplies, gravels, sand, drainage, timber, insulation, and tools. We are proud to supply a wide range of building materials to both trade and public customers, serving as a major supplier to many of the UK’s largest housebuilders and working closely with Scotland’s regional developers.

Our branches feature extensive hard landscaping displays that set a high standard in the UK sector. Cartmore is an award-winning company recognised for excellence in the UK.

We also operate Scotland’s first Fibo Collect, concrete, mortar, and screed production facility at Lochgelly. Cartmore Building Supplies isn’t just another builders’ merchant—we are your complete, independent building supply partner. Contact us for more information!