Drywall: self-assembly

One of the finest and most wonderful inventions that a man has just invented in the field of construction and finishing materials and materials can be called plasterboard. After all, he was able to completely replace the use of cement-particle board, since it weighs fewer times and it is much easier to work with it. This article will convince every novice builder that with the use of plasterboard material, montage by hand will become an easy and pleasant work.

The name of the material completely reflects its composition, namely the gypsum center, which is covered on both sides with a decent layer of cardboard. Also on sale you can see a moisture-resistant plasterboard, the difference is only in a small resistance to moisture layers of special cardboard.

Drywall is used in most cases for preliminary work, wall finishing for surface leveling, subsequent painting, wallpapering or plastering. Moreover, this material has both soundproofing properties and also insulates the walls.

For repair work, you need to remove all the measurements to know exactly how much plasterboard material is needed. Self-assembly can begin after the preparation of tools. It is necessary to prepare a stationery knife, special guides from tin, which can be purchased in any building supermarket, paint paper tape, which must necessarily be solely on an adhesive basis, as well as a tape measure and a simple pencil.

Standard sheets produce 2500 * 1200 mm, and it is very convenient for typical multi-apartment houses, the height of the walls of which reaches two and a half meters.

The closet from plasterboard with your own hands? There is nothing easier if you know the basics and have a desire. To begin with, you will need to create a frame, on which the drywall will be attached. To do this, you will need guides from thin sheet metal of two kinds (one two centimeters wide, the second one eight), self-tapping screws (length about two centimeters and the hat should be wide), electric drill, metal scissors or tin and bit nozzle Phillips screwdriver.

From the prepared narrow guides the strong construction - a skeleton is formed. The stiffeners in this construction are created with the help of wide guides. The next step is to connect the guides. A bit-attachment is connected to the electric drill chuck, then a screw is inserted. The edge of one guide should be inserted into the wall of the other, but at the same time the edges of the guides must fall into the grooves one to the other and in the center of the joint all this is fastened with a screwdriver.

Before attaching the finished sheets of gypsum board, you need to make sure that the frame is flat. This can easily be done using the building level. If the walls are uneven, then wooden pegs will come to the aid, which you just need to put under the rail. And only after the frame is finally leveled, you can proceed directly to fixing the drywall.

Screw the screw carefully, so as not to destroy the material, at least two or three millimeters from the edge and one millimeter in depth of the sheet itself, then it will be possible to hide the screw of the self-tapping screw. It is necessary to make sure that sheets of building material very closely adjoin one another and no crevices are formed. And at this stage, the process of leveling the walls using plasterboard material, the installation itself is almost finished.

Cutting sheets of drywall is very easy, and most importantly - quickly. It is enough to make precise measurements and to recheck them, after which, using a guide or an ordinary rack using a clerical knife, do not make a very deep cut along the length of the sheet. Then it is necessary to grasp the middle of the sheet and make a roll towards the rack itself. If everything is done correctly, then the necessary part of the drywall is very easily broken off. The same principle is used to create a shelf made of plasterboard with their own hands.

If you follow this instruction, then no problems should arise. The main thing that now you know, to use drywall, montage yourself to produce - it's all very easy!