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A cement board is a combination of cement and reinforcing fibers formed into sheets, of varying thickness that are typically used as a tile backing board. [1] Cement board can be nailed or screwed to wood or steel studs to create a substrate for vertical tile and attached horizontally to plywood for tile floors, kitchen counters and backsplashes.
Location of St. Joseph County in Indiana. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Joseph County, Indiana.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Joseph County, Indiana, United States.
Michiana, a portmanteau of "Michigan" and "Indiana", is a loosely defined sub-region that spans southwestern Michigan and Northern Indiana's north-central counties.It is centered on the South Bend–Elkhart–Mishawaka Combined Statistical Area and generally corresponds with Area code 574.
Originally called Adamant Plaster Board, the product became known as Sheetrock in 1917, [14] with the new term credited to USG sales representative D.L. Hunter of Fort Dodge, Iowa. [ 15 ] By the 1930s, the company's policy of diffusion of manufacturing facilities, vertical integration and product diversification allowed it to operate profitably ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Clark County, Indiana, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in an online map.
Blue fiber cement siding HardiePanel on design-build addition, Ithaca NY. Fiber cement siding (also known as "fibre cement cladding" in the United Kingdom, "fibro" in Australia, and by the proprietary name "Hardie Plank" in the United States) is a building material used to cover the exterior of a building in both commercial and domestic applications.
The area was previously known as Petersburg– but was renamed to Speed, after the businessman James B. Speed who chose the location for a cement mill. Speed was established as a company run town. The company ran the general store, hotel, post office and owned many of the homes around the mill, which were built to house the cement plant employees.
Polk Street Concrete Cottage Historic District is a national historic district located in the First Subdivision of Gary, Indiana. The district encompasses four contributing buildings in a residential section of Gary. The buildings were designed by D. F. Creighton and built by the United States Sheet & Tin Plate Co.