How Do You Do It?How To Accomplish Just About Anything

No body, but no body really likes working with drywall, but lets face it, its a fact of life and a necessity when you’re a home owner.

A few tips will help you to work with it most effectively and keep the mess and fuss to a minimum.

There will always be times when you have to cut the drywall, to set up your light fixtures, switches or other obstacles along the wall or ceiling. If you’ve run into problems cutting your drywall in the past, why not try out these simple methods to make the job a little easier to accomplish.

• Whenever you possibly can, use the full sheet of it, so that cutting it isn’t necessary. Try to make sure that the end of it falls in the center of a stud.
• To cut it more easily, set it up with the finished side out toward you and score it with a razor or utility knife
• Snap the drywall backwards and it should break at the score marks, however that won’t completely separate it, so you will have to complete cutting through the paper with your utility knife.
• It is possible to cut the long way and keep it straight by snapping a chalk line, but you will want to use a dry tack cloth or something to remove the excess chalk when you’re done with that, as we’ve seen the chalk bleed out through the paint and show up quite nicely.
• Making an inside corner with drywall usually works best by cutting it with a drywall saw, and scoring with a utility knife as well, then snapping it just as you would with any other kind of drywall cut.
• If you need to cut out things like light fixtures, one of the smartest things we’ve ever seen is to use a compass to make the correct size circle and then cut it out with a keyhole saw.
• To cut your light switches, start where the last sheet of drywall ends, measure from there to the light switch, and how far up and down the switch will go on the sheet. Transfer those measurements to the drywall sheet and cut.

Working with drywalling is never going to be fun, but it can be less messy and less complicated if you take the time to measure well, double check your measurements  and to transfer those wall measurements to your drywall prior to cutting. Scoring with the utility knife is far easier in my book than using the drywall saw for everything.