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Installing Drywall with Wallboard and Taped Joints

Bob is back on the first floor of the barn with Bill Reid from US Gypsum where the crew is installing drywall. This is a traditional installation with drywall wallboard and taped joints. Before hanging the boards the crew takes some measurements so that they can avoid putting a ripped piece in the center. If they installed the drywall with an eight inch piece in the center it would create a weak spot on the board between two studs. The screw spacing on drywall should be 16 inches on center. The installer uses a roto-zip to make cut-outs. Once in place the wall is ready for tape and joint compound.
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Installing Drywall with Wallboard and Taped Joints

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" We're talking sheetrock instead of blue board and plaster now because the homeowner wanted the while the ability to just put nails everywhere yes that was what I understand. But the that want the hardness of the plaster to go through. With little push prints so this will be a traditional installation. She'd sheetrock wallboard with taped joints right that's correct and what the weather fellows are doing here is starting to hang it you don't hang it any differently than if you were still using the blue board right."

" those -- don't pay a little bit differently if you notice on here what is done is he's looked at the heart of that wall is because of dimensions. We want who's not court but rip piece in the center. To -- this wall right now is a body which slipped. What he's doing at this point in time by putting a larger piece on top political a lot of two foot piece from the bottom OK -- an eight inch piece in the middle of not a good idea here. Only because of burning wood that that would awarded once it's finished it's a -- bottom of on the border between -- social right and as far as the screw spacing on ships were facing few rocks. If you -- Is sixteen feet from them. Now what is that tool that he uses to make the cut out. Let's politically is that typical road trip. What that does just makes the job a lot easier than using -- floor. Or small and so recoverable."

" And now that was basically ready for tape and joint compound right bill for an --"

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