Preparing a room for hanging drywall mostly involves calculating the total area of the walls and ceiling determining the number of full 4x8 foot sheets you ll need and laying out the installation.
Hanging drywall on a rough basement stone wall.
If the basement walls are made of poured concrete check for rust spots at the metal ties.
Tape a one foot by one foot square of plastic sheeting plastic kitchen wrap will do to the concrete wall in your basement with duct tape and leave it in place for 24 hours.
Cut drywall pieces as necessary by.
Mist the metal tie hole with water and use a margin trowel to apply hydraulic cement to plug each hole.
Hanging drywall in a bare room where you re down to the studs it s simple.
Starting with the top row apply adhesive to the studs.
Allow the cement to dry.
The adhesive helps prevent popped nail heads by helping to hold the drywall panel in place.
Typically you should use 5 inch drywall on both the walls and ceiling.
A wall stud is the vertical frame that holds the wall structure in place.
Stagger the seams on the second row to avoid long vertical seams.
Then remove the tape.
Hang sheets of drywall across the wall running each sheet so the length runs horizontally.
You can also hang drywall over paneling you just have to make sure to hit the wall studs.
You hang it on the studs.