With the right tools and simple techniques, you can produce smooth, neat drywall joints.
Butt joints, where two pieces of drywall meet, are areas easily susceptible to cracking. It's ridiculously easy for less experienced drywallers to cause these kinds of cracks, but even true pros are no strangers to problems arising here. Solution: To minimize cracking, do your best to place...
Drywall tape is a rugged paper tape designed to cover seams in drywall. The best tape is not "self-stick" but is held in place withdrywall joint compound. It is designed to be very durable, resistant to tearing and water damage, and has a slightly rough surface to provide maximum adhesio...
Tip 3 helps you cut drywall to the right size. For example, the length of drywall I needed was 45 5/8 inches. But at the length of 45 5/8″ the width was 52 5/8″ which was wider than the initial 52 3/4″ measurement. Had I assumed the width was 52 3/4″ (minus the 1/...
(or the electrician) installs a light fixture or receptacle in the wrong location. It’s easy enough to get him to move it, but having an electrician repair drywall is like getting a demolition laborer to cut dovetail joints—it ain’t gonna happen. So that leaves you with a light ...
Hanging drywall may sound complicated, but that doesn't have to be the case. Follow these step-by-step instructions and your installation will go smoothly.
How Joints Connect Your Bones Osteoporosis and Other Bone Diseases Bones of the Human Skeleton Bone is a honeycomb-like grid of calcium salts located around a network of protein fibers. These protein fibersare called collagen. When you patch a hole in a piece of drywall, you usually cover it...
The first thing you’ll notice about your drywall sander is the large, wide base of the sander. This makes sanding / polishing those big walls easier as you are able to attack a larger section of the wall at once. The base is designed to handle those big joints in plasterboard in one...
Once the house structure is in place, the plumbing, electrical wiring and drywall (including the ceiling) are installed. The roof, typically constructed in another part of the factory, is set on top of the walls. In some prefabs, workers attach the roof on-site after the rest of the hous...
As in, some bozo had “secured” the upper cabinets to the walls by pounding drywall anchors into the plaster and then fastening the cabinet boxes to those plastic plugs. God only knows how they never fell off, even during an actual earthquake. ↩︎ Considering how great the new cabinets...