Many homes feature drywall in interior walls.
Drywalling your home or a specific room is a daunting task when your materials do not add up. Having too little of one item will cause production to slow, yet too much of an item will lead to financial loss. When placing drywall in a certain area of the home, you must understand all of the materials that are needed as well. There are tools, adhesives and fixtures that you must have in order to complete the job.
Instructions
1. Measure across the floor of the wall to which you will be applying drywall. This will help you attain a very straight line and an accurate measurement. Do not worry about subtracting the dimensions of windows and doors since you should never piece together drywall. The door or window will be cut out later when installation begins.
2. Calculate the number of wallboards needed by adding the entire perimeter of the room you are drywalling. If the wall lengths of the room are 10, 12,12 and 10 feet, your total perimeter is 44 feet. For this perimeter length, you will need 11 4-by-8-foot wallboards. Simply divide the perimeter by the 4-foot wallboard width and you will find the number of boards needed to reach an 8-foot ceiling.
3. Measure the height of the room, since some homes have very tall ceilings and some have as short as 7-foot ceilings. You need to multiply the height by the perimeter to get your total square footage. If the height is 8 feet, for example, and the perimeter is 44 feet, as stated above, then your total square footage is 352. Nails are sold in 5 1/4-pound boxes that suit 1,000 square feet of drywall. Unless you go over 1,000 square feet, one box of nails is enough.
4. Calculate the amount of joint compound, or drywall putty, needed to seal the seams between boards. Using the model listed above, for 352 square feet of drywall you will need about 2 gallons of joint compound. As a rule of thumb, you will need about 1 gallon of putty for every 200 square feet of drywall.
5. Calculate the amount of tape needed to join the compound to the boards in a seamless fashion. Drywall tape is sold in 60-, 250- and 500-foot sizes. You will need half the amount of feet as the drywall square footage. For instance, the 352 square feet of drywall shown above will require at least 175 feet of tape. For this amount either purchase three rolls of 60-foot tape or one roll of 250-foot tape.
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