How to Measure and Cut Drywall | Drywall Installation Guide Part 3

thanks for joining us today today we're going to cover all the tips and tricks in drywall in 101 how to cut it score it snap it break it make it look beautiful alright so let's talk measures ah it's easy to get the measurement of the length question of two people but the secret here is you need to measure at the end and the middle and at the other end again so that you know how out of square of the room is and the transfer that measurement on the drywall so that when you bring it up here all you correct measurements are in the right place the reason I want to measure the middle as well is because I know the drywall straight but I don't know if the wall is straight this might actually be it all screwed together to a 2x4 that has a warp in it and I'm gonna have a curved wall and I won't be able to see it from here it's 22 and 3/4 so what we're going to do is give ourselves a little bit of a break and we'll go 22 and a half knowing that the wall will cover the gap the middle is very consistent 22 and 3/4 Wow the freaky thing here is the outside wall in this wall we're pre-existing from the Builder would this be the first square room of my life ah nope all right close yeah twenty-two and a half fifth big surprise okay here's the other tool that I forgot to mention you're going to need this is a drywall square T Square lumina m-- just leaving the back of your truck it lasts forever don't abuse it though you want to make sure it stays quick here's the this tool is fabulous I've seen a lot of guys do a lot of different ways when they're cutting but I like to use this square because it makes my life easy my measurement from my ceiling drywall is 112 and 7/8 all I do is run over to the tape and when I hit the spot right I'm done I don't even need the marking board take out my knife keep the blade short remember you're just cutting the paper don't do anything to explain you is here and then lift up the quarter break it step in behind always keeping your hands away from your cutting area there we go that's how to cut drywall 101 our ceiling is also going to get cut 22 and 3/8 that's the width that we're going to use now the fact that I can cut it continuous all the way across is often because I get the cheap this particular tools numbers running up and down both sides so a full sheet of drywall all you have to do is follow up there where it says 22 and 3/8 and then you can set your blade on the edge of the edge of the square and then push the tip into the paper and then with your left hand sliding across the drywall pulling with the right hand mark the whole sheet together at the same time done here a little bit of a pop very very fond some happy days now the seat on the bottom is the one that I'm using here so I don't want to set it on the ground so I set it on my foot and again I'm only cutting the paper from the backside when the advantage of these knives if you can't reach it extend the place that's the future Matthew let's just go over a few tips and tricks here and how to cut drywall using it personal you don't want your blade extended too far if your blade is really extended then you start cutting your blade I'll actually Bend can work and you'll end up cutting like an s-curve so you keep your blade short you'll cut straight that helps number two let's say it's going to draw out a cut their imaginary cut here okay so we're cutting around a box right and I wanted to cut that you can't snap that so one of these lines needs to be cut with a saw so traditionally what guys will do is they'll take their saw out and they'll start cutting that line okay and there is a going around and fighting with it where you cut with a saw simple a little pressure lots of movement the faster you go with the sod easier it is you don't risk break-in your board the other thing you can do because it's only drywall it's not finished carpentry is you can take your mark and you can just cut down to it cut it across now here's the fun place I can just reach over I can see my line underneath the drywall place my knife on the drywall and I know exactly where to go so I look to where I'm going to go which is right here I don't mean any straight tools so look to where I'm going to go and your brain does all the work for you and then you can cut the backside as well and you have a cut piece of drywall find it necessary to trim the inside corner a little bit that's it good to go don't even need that song if you're cutting a curve let's say you're coming around a curved wall all right it's the same thing before a little bit of a little bit of flex now let's go up in the other side you put that flex can you see that shadow egg picks up the shadow so when I go to a bit of flex I can see the shadow and again I'm only cutting the paper so don't use too much pressure and you can cut a perfect curve cutting across the top and you're just taking off a little bit just say you're taking off a half an inch let's draw a line first you can draw a line like this with that square instead of trying to draw that line with your knife in the square at the same time really hard to manipulate something really tight together same thing just draw the pencil line and you can follow the pencil line this way by looking just a funny or knife or you can just look to where you're going [Music] now that's a horrible job what I would suggest is if you're looking where you're going you know if you also have to have in your peripheral and then you're pretty straight you have more than one line in the same area you know your drivers gonna be all confused you have more than one cut because you screwed up put the Block on the cut line that you want pinched it okay just beneath your line and you roll it over [Music] all those cuts will come up at the same time now let's say your scribed you've got a scribe surface so you have a curve going on and you want to cut that nice okay so you're holding your knife with your thumb and your finger you've actually got almost like a tripod going on you can squeeze the knife with your hand and leave your thumb and finger out now you've got credible stability you can just watch where you're going using your thumb and your finger like a tripod maintain where you're going because it's a curve yowzers and just put that little bit of a dimple in there create that shadow now if you go if you have to do a hole and you don't have your hole saw first of all point your finger you can draw a pretty decent circle here all right there's your hole let's say take your knife need a little bit of a tripod action here now if you don't have a hole saw or rotas it you can use yourself and you just stab it through and cut the circle or you can just square make a big X on the back of your drywall all right one two three and at all all right okay this is what I was talking about earlier close the gap on the tapered joint okay that one is a little split from the screw back it up till you get good contact there you go four screws will hold that until you finish it off if you go near the end you can actually cheat your looking to your distract goes all the way the end of it does it back 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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Length: 10min 1sec (601 seconds)

Published: Thu May 18 2017