This guide provides a step-by-step guide on how to install drywall, covering every step from measuring the wall to hanging and tacking the drywall sheet. The guide is designed for beginners and offers tips on how to hang drywall using basic tools and help from a friend. It covers windows and outlets, ensuring proper screw length, off-set panels, and preventing wires and pipes from being punctured.
The guide also covers the preparation of the ceiling, preparing the drywall sheets for the ceiling, and installing the drywall on the wall. It also discusses the importance of cutting openings for doors, windows, and outlet boxes, securing the drywall against the outside and inside corners, and adding finishing coats of drywall compound.
To install drywall, start by applying adhesive to the studs, which are the vertical frames that hold the wall structure in place. Remove old drywall, nails, screws, and anything else that will prevent the new drywall sheets from adhering. Open up the ceiling drywall, install short blocking perpendicular to the joists, and then attach the drywall frame. This method is more stable but more expensive.
Next, measure and cut the drywall for the ceiling, cover the ceiling with a rotary cut-off tool, cover the wall, and trim around doors and windows. This guide is perfect for anyone looking to install drywall in their home, as it is a lightweight, simple, and minimally invasive project.
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“Avoid joint over the corner door frames in windows” There literal first sheet they put up was on a corner of a door. It’s actually best to put the joint over a door frame in the middle somewhere because it creates a smaller joint to finish and is just as stable as any other joint. Where they put that first sheet, in line with edge of door, is where a lot movement happens every time it’s opened and close. That joint is guaranteed to crack relatively soon and I’d put money on it. As well as at 4:45, they broke on the same stud for the entire length of the wall. You’ll essentially never be able to hide that joint with mud. Hopefully they put something there that will never let that wall see the light of day, or the dark of night. Also code is different everywhere, but on residential you can nearly always do ever 12″ on center for your screw pattern in the field. (3 screws per stud except on the top plate, bottom plate and joints, those are 8″. So every joint each sheet should have 5.) If you’re gonna make a guide, especially for beginners, you should have some idea of what you’re doing. :body-green-covering-eyes: Leave the drywall to the professionals if you don’t want to pay us later to come back and fix all your DIY. Your guys’ article production is very high quality, I did actually enjoy the article. I didn’t expect to learn anything so I’m not critiquing you on that, rather, I’m critiquing you on how many people you misinformed. You don’t ask a nursing student to teach you how to preform brain surgery.
Peaceful Blue, Dayflower, and Offshore Mist from BEHR Marquee. Just used these and some other nice colors in a 2 family house (bottom floor and foyer). Everyone that has seen it, loves these colors. Another good one is Solemn Silence from BEHR Marquee. Used in hallway/ mudroom and laundry room on the second floor. I plan to reuse some of these colors in our next project.
thank you for posting this. I want to gut the plaster and lathe in a house we are buying and run new electric. I was wondering if i was being too arrogant to think I could do the drywall myself so we could keep our costs mostly for electrical work. I still think I can do it, but someone else is going to do the mud!!
Honestly when are they going to come out with a better product that’s comparable priced to drywall? I hate that crap, over time if you even put a pin hole in it it just crumbles. Such a horrible product that makes the whole house feel cheap. Maybe if they at least put a thin layer of veneer on top of the drywall panels to give you something more sturdy…I don’t know.
Unless you have no marketable skills of any sort, you’re better off putting in some extra time in your chosen field and then paying the professionals to do the drywall job. As a carpenter I’ve seen too many amateurish jobs that ending up taking far too much time, frustration and money spent on wasted materials to make it worth it.