Basement Remodeling: Drywall

Video Transcript

"Hi I'm Jeremy Blackwell. I'm here today to help you get started on your basement remodel project. After the framing, the plumbing, the heating and the electrical is completed and your insulation is installed, you're ready for everyone's favorite, which is the drywall. This is something that a homeowner could do if they had enough time and ambition. It's not a difficult task, but it is time consuming and there are some intricacies involved with hanging and finishing the drywall correctly. You just want to make sure that the drywall is hung that straight and that when you nail it in, you make a slight dimple. What you're trying to do is create a smooth surface. So these screws and nails have been countersunk slightly, so that when they tape over them they can sand that down and make that nice smooth surface. That's something to keep in mind. That's the main, the main thing you're trying to do when you're sheet rocking your your basement is to, to get that smooth surface. Once you have that smooth surface there 's many different textures that can be applied. You can do a smooth wall, you can do skip trowel, you can spray the texture on, there's many different things and that is completely up to whatever you want to do as a homeowner. There's many different ways to complete the drywall process. Some people here, they've hung the drywall initially with nails to tack it into place, but they've come back after and screwed the sheet rock on. If you use nails completely on this long piece of sheet rock, it's probably not going to hold as well as it needs to. So you want to keep that in mind. If you do hire someone to hang the sheet rock only and you decide to tape it, take that into account. Also take into account, how bad they're beating on the sheet rock itself because that leaves more work for you in the tape and texture process. One other reason that people use screws instead of nails is that these nails tend to work themselves loose during the settling process. Your home is made out of wood, there's water in wood, as that water evaporates the wood will kind of shrink a little bit and you'll get some settling going on in your home and the nails tend to move a lot more than the screws. So if you do tack the sheet into place, be sure to screw it off and don't use nails for the whole sheet. "