How to properly install drywall in the house
Wednesday, June 9th, 2010Drywall, sometimes called sheet-rock walls was a very common in most homes today.
Installed by professionals, a whole house can be installed, or "hanging" in a day. Tape, fill a bag and grinding takes an average of four to 56 days more until it is ready for painting. With a little 'practice, every homeowner install plasterboard and the execution of an acceptable final product.
If you can see someone actually suspended or taping drywall and filling workcan be very helpful to see how they will. Drywall is available in different thicknesses, in which many different types for specific applications. The drywall is most commonly seen a half inch thick and is used in many areas of the home. Walls and ceilings, use both the half-inch material. In my state is 5 / 8 inch thick drywall and plaster half-inch required in the garage attached to the fire and a furnace or boiler house is located in a basement. Garage and boiler room drywallrequires only one layer of tape and called the fire filler coat to prevent a fire from penetrating the seams of drywall and fasteners.
Bathrooms are generally considered to be wet and therefore specific drywall or green waterproof for use in any wet environment. If the ceramic tile will then be applied to drywall is a special rough surface rough drywall cement board. Drywall is available in lead plates for X-ray rooms, a special insulating paper carrier, printed decorative facesand a host of other special applications.
Standard plasterboard sheets are available in four foot widths, but the lengths vary from eight feet feet general size sixteen. Lengths are available upon request. big box stores and gas stations carry lumber lengths sentenced to twelve feet by two sixteen p.m. arch of the foot. Homeowners choose usually eight feet long for the simple management of material, but in a twelve-meter high wall, causing additional four feet of vertical jointThis should be glued and painted. A hand could reach forty feet corner angle. Do this for a whole house, and you are looking for several hundred yards of tape and extra work sanding. That translates into many hours of overtime worked.
Installing drywall is usually a work of two people simply because they are concerned with the bow is quite complicated. During the installation of drywall on the ceiling, a crew of two is not enough. With a personality to each end of the arc of a third plantNails or screws to fasten to the studs or beams, the blade firmly against the wall and in line with the other leaves are a chore. I have seen installers hang seen 5 / 8 inch sheet of twelve feet, but this, but it takes many years of practice. Rent a drywall lift can raise a leaf in place and work for himself.
This is a far better practice to use drywall screws during installation on ceilings. Screws are available in different lengths to suitConditions, but customs and five eighth on the track used the most common format. The screws are made of steel and galvanized surfaces, so good.
Buy a good quality dry rifle arm muscles to a gun shop owner for the website, and these weapons can be used hundreds of projects around the house. Invest in a good. It is recommended that a screw every six centimeters around the blade, and double-click on the screws every eight centimeters around the arc. ThisBolt pattern helps to prevent and eliminate almost called "nail pops". Nails in the past has a tendency to pull out easily to the dry weight of gravity and good old causes the putty to lose and pop out. Screws do not loosen over time. When you install the screws, is moving to the screw head just below the surface without the card in light of the drywall. nail guns practice a few times and has a good built-in clutch is adjustable, so you canPush as hard as you want, but the point is simply that drive the screw right. Once set, your work rate increases when you move easily and the screws are not focusing on any single measure that has led, etc.
Use larger pieces at any time. When you understand the quantity of drywall, a standard room with a door and two small window will appear as if all the walls were solid.
A foot Ten by Ten foot space with eight foot ceilings would be eight to ten foot sheets for the acquisitionWalls and three leaves (2 1 / 2) when the ceiling drywall is installed horizontally. Installing drywall took eight meters vertical panels for walls and 5 leaves (4 1 / 2) in one of the ceiling. Can be done? Yes, it seems safe, but what was created more work in the tape and filling compounds. The four lengths vertical edges are both the same way to remove two feet each, so abandoned. When you install it horizontally would be four times forty three meterstotal joint tapes foot wall. During the installation must be done vertically eight of eight feet or in part, every four hundred feet of joint tape. More than fifty percent more work. The ceilings are the same. With ten foot boards, there are twenty feet in the joints do. With eight-foot panels were
36 meters to make the joints. Nearly one hundred percent and you will also have three butt joints as well. butt joints occur when the ends of the leaves are drythickness together. This is avoided if possible. They are extremely difficult to correct tape, and if not corrected, a significant bump in the finished product to produce enough.
It 'pretty easy to find, amateur work, if I see dozens of vertical joints, used small piece left on windows and doors create butt joints even more and a wrong amount nails or screws. It is not possible to completely eliminate any shock, but try to avoid them whenever possible. InstallDrywall throughout the widow and cut off when finished. The time and effort saved by this method far outweighs a few extra dollars eight leaves. If a glass wall has a large amount of space, of course, deduct this area. You can mix at the end is a leaf or two installed vertically on the end wall of a window and the rest of the space, but horizontally each room unique. Knowing now that you try to remove as many sessions as possible when orderingand the installation will perform like a second nature of the drywall you work more.
Adhesive tapes and mix filling is an art form in a sense. The band has been used for the bottom layer of filler to provide an ongoing relationship between the sealed sheets of drywall. successive layers of filler allows smooth wall or ceiling finish, we usually see. Typically three layers of stucco is a normal use, but sometimes just the job requires more work. Architects to plan all types of curved walls, odd anglesand so on, and these forms may require additional layers of stucco. Only one layer of tape is required and primers. Depending on the size of the contract, the purchase of premixed filling five gallon buckets is by far the cheapest method. paper tape is also economical. I recommend buying a conical sink for about ten dollars. It looks like a baked bread pans measuring approximately12 inches long, four inches in width and depth. It takes a coupledollop fillers good or jar and work for him. Will not you try to draw a five-liter bucket in a room. You will be carrying a roll of tape filler, a six-inch and two inches, maybe a knife Rose filler tape and a scale, and this small pool get quite difficult, as the execution day. The bottom of the stucco is rather difficult and the use of about five fifty-five cm wide. Take your paper and put it directly above the center of the joint below. Bysix-inch knife blade along the narrow strip of paper pushing filling. If done properly, the cartridge is filled on both sides of the band and the band itself is washed with the kit. Do not pull the knife so hard that you remove all the tape and let dry plaster surface. The idea is that the filler, wrap the tape in a blanket fill light. Keep the putty smooth as possible. Do not leave behind ridges and bumps. If you dry the fillerwill have to sand before applying any burrs next layer. Keep the surface as smooth as possible. Screws can be a trick, and .. A small amount of filler for the end of your knife, dab three or four screws in a row with the kit enough to allow the filling and cover the screw heads. With the knife in a corner drywall, pull the knife in the lives of all four heads in a straight line at a time. This is to fill cavities head screw and leave a small trace of fillerbetween the drywall screws. Besides helping to save human resources and arms, making four screws when the light kit from the back of dry places left to hide the screw head later when you are ready to follow.
It is the level of all the first time all the walls, ceilings and corners. Once done, all utensils, wash with warm water and dry thoroughly. They do not rust if you do not dare. The spots of rust and pitting will cause bad influenceRibbon work. If you purchased a good quality tools are an investment to last many years if you take care of them properly. Need a stick and loop sanding sheets and a few good hand sanding block. These leaves are not typical sandpaper, but it only work for plasterboard filler. The auction is the work chosen from the ground when it comes to ceiling, and if you know how to use it to facilitate joint work sand wall to go much faster. Whenfirst layer is completely dry and the ground, we can begin the second layer.
We hope that you do not need a great left ridges or irregularities of the first layer, as these more aggressive cleaning to remove them. When the entire room is sanded, clean dust and starting the second round. This layer is much less work than using a filler and not a band. This coat will cover the entire tape, expand collections to hide their joints and levels of allShortcomings in the work. Take your time with this layer of stucco. The smooth is applied, the better the end result will look like. I use a twelve-inch blade width on this coat, my joints as wide as possible. This hides better collaboration between the plates. The edges of the leaves are slightly tapered to allow the use of stucco in the end flush with the sheet and not a hunchback condition. You use a lot less filler in the first tier. Let the fillerdry.
After drying, we begin the third and final layer of plaster. The second layer of sand lightly to remove any deficiencies you fall behind. Again must be much smaller than the first layer. When the third layer is because very easy to use and fill any small wells or cavities to provide a smooth surface that can be achieved. There should be no ridges or crevices, at this point in the work. This is the final product. When dry, give the final touch.
A good work is nowa primer coat of plaster drywall for all. Usually white (but colored to give the final color, color balance) of the fund, the paper is the light color to dry in a single structure, the poetry, but it will also suspend any small error in the plasterboard or filling work. Now is the time to work for dry hands. Only a small blob of putty here and there will disappear when you make the final image. When everything is dry, all completely emptyRemoving the space to prevent any dust filler in the sense that more or painted finish.
The painting is a second article.