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Cutting & Fastening Fire-Rated Wall Drywall

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Abandoned Garage into a brand new garage (EP.5)

What happens here

Tools and materials

  • 1 5/8" Coarse Thread Drywall Screws — Securely fastening drywall to wood studs
  • 5/8" Type X Fire-Rated Drywall Sheets — Providing enhanced fire resistance for walls
  • Drywall Screw Gun Ryobi — Efficiently driving drywall screws to the correct depth without stripping
  • Jab Saw — Cutting openings for electrical boxes and other penetrations in drywall
  • Laser Level Ryobi — Projecting a straight line for aligning drywall sheets on uneven walls
  • Level — Ensuring straight cuts and for marking reference lines
  • Tape Measure — Accurately measuring drywall sheets
  • Utility Knife — Scoring and cutting drywall sheets

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going to run out on this entire house with this all right [Music] now because your boy is a dummy it got way too excited they hooked up all his electrical that does that means I can't use my little RotoZip to zip out the electrical box to make it easy and fast I said I got to do it by hand lesson learned you dummy now if you ask me that's not right [Music] this one I'm gonna have to do quite a bit of mudding on [Music] hold on wasn't there an outlet here ah here we go again let's see if we can rescue this thing I see a little bulge right here so hopefully we could not do too much damage here [Music] boy we're off to a bad start huh here kitty kitty we got her what a dumb mistake huh [Music] I can't figure out these measurements what's going on no set traditionally speaking the ceiling usually drywall gets installed first so that this stuff could butt up against it I don't have any extra help today to go over my ceiling tomorrow I'll have some help so in the meantime I have to create a gap 5 8 so the sheet can slide in there and then we can do the ceiling not my ideal scenario but you just gotta adapt [Music] so everything's coming along my luck all these stinking gaps are just a footings issue I guess uh in case anybody's wondering I was going to add a moisture barrier but then I started doing all this online digging and they're saying if the garage is heated you will need a moisture barrier if the garage is not heated they actually recommend that you don't install the moisture barrier so the walls could breathe I guess they said I don't know what that means but I think it's more of like a moisture evaporation thing so I shouldn't have cut this off foreign [Music] finally the real trick here with all this unevenness with the footings and stuff use a level in the garage here it's all wonky so I've learned that from my first row over there that's why I just dug the next row is a little bit less dug and this is just oh tiny a little bit dog guys I got this entire wall done essentially I got this entire main garage done as a you know except that ceiling which we're going to tackle tomorrow when I get extra help now we got to do this back side here same thing same freaking thing [Music] we got all the walls done and now we're doing the ceiling and that's where you're supposed to do first but I I couldn't do it by myself so I got Tim to come out and help me say hi Tim say attitude guys so we were playing a game of whack here for a little bit because uh none of…

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