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  • Olesen Gade posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago

    Installed by pros, a full house might be installed or "hung" a single day. Taping, spackling and sanding is going to take typically four to five more work days until it is ready for painting. After some practice, any homeowner can install drywall and have a satisfactory end result.

    When you have an opportunity to watch someone either hanging the drywall or really do the taping and spackle arrange it can be quite a great aid in seeing the way they do it. Drywall comes in several unique thicknesses and there a several different types for special applications. Essentially the most commonly seen drywall is certainly one 1 / 2 inch thick and is also used in most aspects of any home. Ceilings and walls both use 1 / 2 inch material. Within my state, five eighths inch thick drywall or 1 / 2 inch fire code drywall is necessary in attached garages well as over a house boiler or furnace in a basement. Garages and boiler room drywall requires only a single coat of tape and spackle referred to as a fire coat, to prevent a fireplace from penetrating the drywall with the seams and screws.

    Bathrooms are usually considered wet areas and thus special green or water repellent drywall can be used in almost any wet area. If hardwood is going to be applied then a drywall is a special coarse rough surface cement drywall board. Drywall can be acquired with lead linings for X-ray rooms, special insulation paper backing, printed decoration faces, plus a myriad of other special applications.

    Standard sheets of drywall come in four foot widths but lengths differ from eight feet to sixteen feet as common sizes. Longer special order lengths are available. Many box stores and lumber yards carry lengths up to twelve feet with fourteen and sixteen foot sheets being ordered. Homeowners typically will choose eight foot lengths because of the easy handling the fabric but with a twelve foot wall, that creates a supplementary vertical four foot joint that really must be taped and spackled. A twelve foot sheet would reach corner to corner. Make it happen within an entire house and you really are considering hundreds of feet of additional work taping and sanding. That converts into many extra hours at work.

    Installing drywall is usually a two person job simply because handling the sheets is quite cumbersome. When installing drywall on the ceiling a two person crew isn’t sufficient. With anyone holding each side in the sheet the third installing either their nails or screws to fasten it for the studs or rafters, keeping the sheet tight on the wall and inline with the other sheets can be a chore. I know of experienced installers hang five eighths inch twelve foot sheets on their own however this nevertheless it takes a lot of practice. Renting a drywall lift that could raise and hold a sheet in place will help you work alone.

    This is a much preferred practice to make use of screws when installing drywall on ceilings. Screws can be found in various lengths to suit the physical conditions but inch and five eights long is easily the most common size used. Screws are available in galvanized and stainless finishes also.

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