Drywall Basics | Drywall Installation Guide Part 1

so today we're going to take the time to teach you everything you need to know about installing drywall how why is what's to do the right products the right tools the right materials so first of all let's just talk drywall turkey drywall basically dust pressed between paper you have two edges on drywall you have the factory edge or the butt joint and then you have the other edge which is a tapered edge no max if your camera can pick that up but it rides a certain depth and then it has a little scoop here and the idea being when you put two of these tape or joints together all you need is one paper tape joint the fill coat and then the finished coat nice and simple you always have a gorgeous joint the more joints you can have that have the paper on them the less work and the easier it is to finish every time you put two butt ends together you've got to go through another paper taping there it takes another coat of application and it takes a little bit of trick so you've got to have a lot more skill to do that kind of joint fortunately for us this room here it's pretty small so we're just gonna go with all full sheets of drywall this is 3/8 thick this is half finished it just the depth here the idea is when you put two sheets together you can tape that with only three steps nice and simple when you have really long walls drywall only comes 89s tens 12 if the wall is longer than 12 then you're gonna have a joint it's gonna be a butt joint and that takes a little bit more skill when it comes to the taping and how to finish that we'll show you that soon but for today we'll talk about how to install this board now it stuffs pretty flexible doesn't have a lot of strength to it so you need to have enough support in behind the wall to hold this stuff you can't just frame 24 inches on center and use regular drywall you're better to go with the 16 inch so basically your tools are simple you need a knife you need tape measure beat a drill Phillips bit but we're most people and this is interesting make the mistake they go to the store and they buy their screws and then box says drywall screws so they grab it but there's a lot of different lengths and there's two different threads so what I want you to know is the fine thread screw is for metal stud framing mostly for commercial don't recommend metal framing in your house you want to buy the coarse threaded screw it's a wider thread you'll grab what better the fine thread screw in wood does tend to end up popping out on you because it doesn't have a wide enough thread to really grab the wood I see guys making this mistake all the time sometimes as ignorance sometimes as laziness now here you can buy your screws and all kinds of different links the secret is this you take the thickness of your drywall half an inch you multiply that by one and a half that's three quarters of an inch you add those two numbers together that gives you the length of your screw so remember whatever you're screwing into your screw has to be one and a half times longer in the material you're screwing into than what you're attaching to the wall so you've got a half inch material you need inch and a quarter if you're in total installing type X or 5/8 drywall you got to go to one and five-eighths if you're installing two layers you go to two inch some commercial applications we can have screws up to two and a half inch but use the right length of screw so that you're not accidentally screwing right into somebody else's wire that's key electricians run their wiring at a certain depth of the wall the guarantee there won't be contact if your screws too long and you pierce a wire you pay the electrician's bill it's not his phone so when it comes to cutting tools for your drywall you really have three basic options one is the knife the standard and when you're cutting drywall the knife it's really simple you want to just use the tip of the knife cut the paper it's just really delicate you don't have to dig all the way in if you get past the paper you're gonna be cutting into that powder it'll dull your blade so fast and then it's dangerous because a dull knife is so the one that's going to cut you the other cutting tool I like to use as the Rotozip mine has a little bit bigger here some light my bit is whiter than usual just turn it on I should mention the reason this wall is up already is because we had spray foam in this building so we wanted to cover that up for fire safety sake so we have a window here I'm just gonna cut the majority of this window out and demonstrate how this tool operates [Music] now it makes a little bit of dust it has a nasty screeching sound so people who don't like that nails on the chalkboard might bother you here we go daylight this tool is incredibly effective around plug boxes because you can stick it in run into the box jump the other side and they just follow the contour always use this tool counterclockwise and then you'll have great success now if you don't have a rotas it the only other option is good old sweat blood and tears using one of these little drywall saws these can be real effective the teeth are going to different directions so be careful if you cut yourself with this you cannot stitch yourself back together it'll be a nasty mess and it'll take weeks to heal so before you start your drywall installation the basic process is your sealing first then the walls there's no real science to it other than the fact that when you're doing your joints if the wall board is pushed up and get into the ceiling it closes up the gap it gets rid of all those little errors that you have with those rooms being on square when you're cutting the wall so you can have a little gap around the outside of the room it'll cover with the walls panels afterwards it's not really supporting anything we are screwing it to the ceiling after all so what we want to do is inspect your ceiling before you close you're looking for a few major things one let's go right up to the ceiling here max1 your heat runs is there insulation between your wires and your heat runs this is brutally important in our region we have it in our electrical code that there must be insulation between the wire and heat sources has to not overheat the wires and cause fire secondly make notes of where your light fixtures are your smoke alarms your heat runs these are all things that you want to make sure that you take care of before you get started because we can use our Rotozip tool to cut around the boxes and all that sort of thing but only once the fixtures are removed so this length is in the way really simple we know the power is off to this oh we got to do is just back off the screws and you could use a knife or a screwdriver sometimes I just cut the wires because there's lots of length here and I know a lectureship can wire this back up again for me no problem alright so we're just gonna pull that loose and we're gonna pull this loose alright I always wrap these things up before you put them back in the box just in case somebody hits that light switch by accident okay so what we have here is an interconnect that smoke alarm co2 alarm you can tell it's interconnected because it has a ton of wires coming in and out of this bad boy as soon as I take this off it's gonna start making a horrible noise so we're gonna wait until we're right ready to put the drywall up just so we don't lose our sanity so I'm just inspecting the ceiling and I see I got a couple of nails sticking down this isn't exactly a hammer but it'll do the job okay and we're missing one piece of strapping on the outside so before we put up for sale I'm gonna make sure we have strapping the same we want to wood every 16 inches on a wall you want to have your strapping on your ceiling about the same now it's very narrow as 1 by 3 is what I'm using so usually when you're strapping if you screw the middle the strapping will dry out and twist a little bit so you want to do is you want to put two screws in just to make sure you're getting both sides so that's twisting motion doesn't happen and I'll alternate that every other strapping just go in the middle for simplicity because we dry it install our drywall contrary to the strapping we're not concerned about whether it's perfectly on 16 some guys I see they try to make sure that their wood is perfectly centered so they can install their wood and on the joint that's a lot of extra work if you just measure off your room and put your drywall the opposite direction goes up a lot faster so here's the Renault tip for you when you're screwing near the end of a piece of spruce like this it's really thin start your bit put the drill in reverse and push and see you see smoke did you see that max when you see smoke you've cauterize that wound if you just drive a screw and a piece of strapping like this it'll split on you now we're done we're ready to install our drywall the only thing left to do now is carry it down here from the chart so let's go get our ten foot sheets no time to waste time is money dude that's a little treacherous Max has got the camera rolling so that when we wipeout not if he has it on film so the system here when you're putting up a ceiling need to remember that you're going to have a half-inch drywall in either side coming up so you've got lots of room there for variance so instead of worry about if the room is square or not we're gonna do is we're going to take the actual measurement take it half an inch off and then when we install we'll try to split the difference in the gap and put a quarter inch on each side so we're actual measurement is 1:18 and 3/4 so we'll install 18 and a quarter that's a 10 foot sheet of drywall well let's go get that cut if you're enjoying these videos subscribe to the channel hit the like button but most importantly comment on the videos by all means or a suggestion of video you'd like to see let us know we'd love to be in touch

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Id: 7VpzUYln8g4

Length: 10min 6sec (606 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 27 2017