How To Hang Drywall On Tall Walls

3 8 inch is best to cover existing walls.

How to hang drywall on tall walls.

To make it a lot easier pony up for a drywall lift. Now a word for you rookies. For walls nine feet high or shorter hanging the drywall horizontally has a number of benefits. Then you screw into the anchor so everything stays in place.

Here is a quick guide for how to work as a team to install drywall. When hanging drywall the ultimate goal is to create the fewest number of seams possible. This means working with the largest drywall panels and pieces you can. Depending on what you re hanging or mounting you may want to use a specific kind of drywall anchor and there are several to choose from.

5 8 inch is heaviest and the most soundproof. How high are the walls. First you can get 9 or 10 foot drywall sheets. Hang the drywall vertically.

Around here we have to install plywood vertical to get adequate nailing around the edges for shear strength. Just before closing up the walls make sure everything is just right. Install the next row of panels as in step 4 butting the edges tightly together. On ceilings you install sheets perpendicular to the joists because you want the strength axis to be perpendicular to prevent sagging.

Add extra studs photo 1 or blocks photo 2 to support the drywall edges as necessary. Cover wire runs with a 1 16 metal plate when wires come within 1 1 4 of the stud face. But for drywall it shouldn t matter unless the plans specify a shear nailing schedule for the drywall. When applying drywall to a 9 foot tall wall there are a couple ways to go.

Next hang the top wall row. A drywall anchor goes between the screw and the drywall biting into the drywall much more effectively than a screw would. On commercial jobs fire codes often require seams to fall on the entire length of the framing so the drywall must be hung vertically. Installing drywall with a helper is the best way to get er done.

Hanging drywall over your head is no fun. Its more a matter of personal preference and not a right or wrong way. Drywall comes in three basic thicknesses. On the bottom row use a drywall lifter to pry the panel inch up from the floor to allow for shrinkage of the framing as on the ceiling offset the end joints from those in the previous row by at least 4 feet.

That way the wall pieces support the ceiling pieces. To make the job somewhat easier make a crutch photo 3.