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DRYWALLING HOW TO TIPS AND TECHNIQUESDrywalling, how to tips and techniques follow on this page and should help with all of your drywalling questions. Drywaller’s do a number of procedures, including repairing a drywall surface, applying drywall board, mudding the board after it's hung and doing texturing techniques to both the ceilings and walls. Below are links to pages of this site, that will help you complete almost any type of drywall project from repairing a hole in your walls, to applying a knock down technique. BLUE underlined titles with the word link in them, are pages to the drywalling information that your looking for. Descriptions below the titles, describe pages of drywalling how to tips that the title links to. PURPLE titles are pages that have yet to be built. Drywaller’s use an assortment of tools to complete a job, from machines that can lift drywall board up towards the ceiling, to different sized mudding knifes and electric cutters. Clicking this link discusses each drywalling tool, how to tips and what each tool is used for. Every once and a while, you will have to repair a door knob size hole (or smaller) in your drywall board. Using this drywalling how to tips link for fixing small holes, will give you quick and easy advice, so you can make those small drywall repairs. Patching larger drywall holes, require a few more drywalling how to tips, techniques, and drywalling knowledge. If you have a basketball sized hole in your drywall (or larger), then using this "how to fix large drywall holes" link, should help you out. Screwing drywall board or sheetrock to ceilings is somewhat different than attaching sheetrock to walls. This link should help you get your ceilings finished. Drywaller’s call the process of hanging drywall or sheetrock, "Boarding" and the tradesman who does the boarding is the Boarder. For those of you who are hanging drywall board and need a little information on how to go about getting the job done, then clicking this boarding walls link, will guide you through the boarding process. Tapers and Mudders are Drywaller’s who apply a specialized drywall tape and mud onto drywall board. Tapping and mudding is the most difficult drywalling procedure and requires a number of how to drywalling tips. Also, taping and mudding can only be done properly with practice, what that means is, if your doing your entire basement, then the last taped and mud filled seam you do, will more than likely be the best one, out of all the mudding you've done. Use the mudding link, to learn taping and mudding drywall techniques. If your texturing hopper is in top condition, the air pressure set correctly, texturing compound is at the right consistency, drying rates are good and your tools are cooperating, then you won't need this texturing link. On the other hand, for those who don't know all of the ins and outs of doing a texturing procedure then this page should help you out. Plastering, is closer to stuccoing, than it is to the process of drywall mudding, even so, all three procedures of plastering, stuccoing and mudding require practice. Clicking this plastering link, explains the plastering process tools, materials and whether you should be plastering in the first place. Looking for interior projects other than drywalling how to tips and techniques. Click on the home link. You should be able to find an idea by reading the text. If I have missed something or you would like to ask a question, e-mail me. Your address will be held in the strictest confidence. I‘ll also try and answer you, in as prompt a manner as possible.
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