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dry wall

French translation: cloison sèche

19:23 Feb 11, 2009
English to French translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Construction / Civil Engineering / house construction
English term or phrase: dry wall
Bonjour,

savez-vous combien traduire "dry wall", dans le contexte de la construction d'une maison ?

Voici la phrase dans laquelle ce mot apparaît :
"The structural integrity of this house really lies in the strength in numbers type of thing, so all the individual fasteners on the clap board, the dry wall are really what’s keeping it together, so when the structure becomes fatigued it’s really going to start to fail here."

Merci de votre aide.
blan
Local time: 10:01
French translation:cloison sèche
Explanation:
Une suggestion...
Selected response from:

Marie-Stephanie Proulx
Canada
Local time: 04:01
Grading comment
Ok pour "placo". Merci !
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +3plaque/panneau de plâtre
Jean-Louis S.
4 +2cloison sèche
Marie-Stephanie Proulx
4 +1placo-plâtre, panneaux de gypse
Jean-Claude Gouin
3 +1( construction ) à mur sec / à paroi sèche
Arnold T.
4BA 13
jean-jacques alexandre
Summary of reference entries provided
already asked?
Johannes Gleim

  

Answers


6 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
cloison sèche


Explanation:
Une suggestion...

Marie-Stephanie Proulx
Canada
Local time: 04:01
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
Ok pour "placo". Merci !

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Didier Martiny
12 hrs
agree  Johannes Gleim: plus q'une suggestion, voir http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/architecture/180...
12 hrs
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12 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
( construction ) à mur sec / à paroi sèche


Explanation:
Termium / * Murs et cloisons
* Procédés de construction modernes :

dry-wall construction = construction à mur sec / construction à paroi sèche

Pourrait convenir si on parle du type de construction plutôt que des murs eux-mêmes.

Arnold T.
Canada
Local time: 04:01
Works in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 168

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tony M
1 hr
  -> Merci Tony !
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16 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
plaque/panneau de plâtre


Explanation:
"Placo" en language courant, du nom de la marque de Sait-Gobain, Placoplâtre.

Jean-Louis S.
United States
Local time: 04:01
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  FX Fraipont (X): I was posting this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_wall
3 mins
  -> Merci, FX!
agree  florence metzger
4 mins
  -> Merci, Florence!
agree  Gael Hudrisier
54 mins
  -> Merci, Gael!
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20 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
BA 13


Explanation:
:- (((

jean-jacques alexandre
France
Local time: 10:01
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 13
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
placo-plâtre, panneaux de gypse


Explanation:
*

Jean-Claude Gouin
Canada
Local time: 04:01
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 12

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Viktoria Gimbe: Oui, c'est mieux que 'plaque/panneau de plâtre', car le 'drywall' n'est pas uniquement composé de plâtre - c'est un assemblage de différents matériaux.
9 mins
  -> Un gros merci, Viktoria ...
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Reference comments


5 hrs peer agreement (net): +1
Reference: already asked?

Reference information:
Did I encounter already this term in previous questions? Perhaps contained in the KudoZ glossary?

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Note added at 12 hrs (2009-02-12 08:18:59 GMT)
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Please refer to http://www.proz.com/kudoz/english_to_french/architecture/180... where drywall has alredy been translated by cloison sèche.

Johannes Gleim
Works in field
Native speaker of: German
PRO pts in category: 71

Peer comments on this reference comment (and responses from the reference poster)
agree  Proelec: Yes, under k 1804052
7 hrs
  -> thank you for providing the link.
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