Do-it-yourself drywall installation for this period is the most economical and reasonable solution when carrying out repairs in your own private house or city apartment. With the direct use of such a building material, you can easily get rid of existing defects in ceilings or walls, while obtaining a perfectly flat surface as a result. Also, drywall is effective as a building material, from which boxes, arches and other decorative elements can be made. Let’s try to analyze the technology of mounting conventional drywall on ceilings and walls.
To start all work with drywall sheets, it is necessary to thoroughly and thoroughly understand what types of building materials exist, and analyze the main characteristics of drywall. Drywall is a material consisting of three different layers: the outer two are made of special cardboard, and the inner one is with gypsum additives. One sheet of ordinary building drywall can weigh up to 30 kg. Drywall, in direct proportion to the additives taken during its production, is divided into several varieties:
ordinary sheets of construction drywall;
fire-resistant sheets of construction gypsum board;
moisture resistant sheets of construction gypsum board.
The most widespread popularity was gained by standard sheets of building gypsum board, used in repair and construction work on the ceiling and walls of any room being repaired. It is worth noting the fact that ordinary sheets of building drywall can be used for any element, due to its thickness. For example, when installing drywall sheets on the ceiling with your own efforts, it is assumed to use construction drywall having a thickness of 9-9.5 mm, in the case of processing walls with sheets of ordinary construction drywall, a thickness of about 12.5 mm is required, when creating various building elements (for example, decorative arches, ledges), sheets of building plasterboard with a thickness of up to 6 mm are required. When carrying out work on the installation of ordinary drywall on the walls, it is quite possible to cope with one person, but when creating a ceiling from sheets of construction drywall, the efforts of one master will clearly not be enough.
