Today’s level of providing smooth walls and hiding the board joints would have seemed almost impossible 40 years ago. Yet, today they are commonplace and expected. Unfortunately, as the finishers got better and tools and materials improved, the owners and architects have kept raising their level of expectation to almost unobtainable perfection. The finishing and final decoration of gypsum wallboard is more complex than most average people in construction are aware.
If you’ve seen videos that show the manufacture of gypsum products, you might have seen some very large trucks hauling gypsum ore from point A to point B. You might have even seen a clip of a controlled explosion where gypsum deposits are being reduced to manageable pieces underground. But you probably haven’t given a lot of thought, if any, to the hands-on part of the job, the actual mining or quarrying of the gypsum ore.
TAFs represent a very cost-effective and highly desired finished look for ICF homes and commercial buildings. While the application of TAFs over ICFs is, in reality, really quite simple, there are some very rudimentary details that must be considered before beginning the application of the finish to ensure optimal performance of the wall.
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