Buttress Boosts 3/a Inch Wallboard

Now comes Chas. F. Craig, General Manager of The Buttress Mar-rufacturing Co'mpany, of Los Angeles, makers of plaster wa'll board, and announces fhat his company is starting a vigorous campaign to edtrcate and sel'l the building trade of California on the use of s/s-inch wall board.

"It may look as though rve were fighting our own game" said I\{r. Craig to The California Lumber Merchant, "but the fact is that we believe firmly in the grearter value of the thick board, and knorving that practically all the rest of the United States outside of California uses /s-inch board almost exclusively, we have decided to make a campaign in favor of better building, and in our judgment thicker wall board and ,better building are mighty closelv allied."

The Buttress Manufacturing Company is making r/a-inch board, making and selling lots of it, and they are decidedly proud of the quality of their board. But, as Mr. Craig says, "while inch ,lumber rnay be entirely al1 right for some purposes, there are many pufposes where two inch stocli is the only thing that will give needed strenrgth, service, and satisfac'tion, aud so it is r,vith wall board."

So they are making both thicknesses now, and they want the retail lumber trade of the State to consider serionslv the use of the thicker wall board be'cause of its mttch greater adaptability and usefulness.

Said Mr. Craig: "The at'erage retailer ancl the averase builder hardly realizes the difference between thick and thin wall board. The /s-inch board can 'be nailed on stttds two feet apart. I't is twice as strong in the wal'l as the t4inch board, and n.rakes doubly as rigid a building. It is doubly as fireproof as the r/a-inch board. It is 3A/o warmer. It is, in fact, a thick plasterecl wall, covered with sheets of confining paper 'of great strength."

"We claim particularly for our /s-inch Bu'ttress Board that it takes a nail just as easily and well as wood; takes much less paint than the ordinary rn'all board on account of the finer qua,lity of the covering paper; takes wall paper better and makes a smoo'ther wall than ordinary wall board on account of its smooth, 'hard surface; is not injured by water, and will not warp if used for outside construction.

So there is the case of the sft-inch Buttress Board as explained by 1\{r. Craig. The quality of their rl-inch board is the same as that of the %.