How to hang drywall

Hanging drywall correctly makes finishing a whole lot easier. Let's get after it. If you're drywalling your ceiling, always install the drywall on the ceiling first and then your walls will come up and support your ceiling. Hang your drywall horizontally and not vertically. It creates fewer seams and makes your finishing work much easier. There are some instances where you are going to hang it vertically and it's just situationally based. A full sheet of drywall has two tapered ends and two butt ends. When two butt ends come together, it's called a butt joint and it's a little bit harder to mud. Try to keep all your finished tapered ends together whenever you can. It's a lot easier to mud. You can probably see the hump here and the hump here. Once you put your mud in there and your tape, this will create a smooth surface all the way down. You are going to have to mud butt ends at some point and I'll show you that in a future video. Make sure that you stagger your butt joints and you don't railroad your seams like this. Don't have one seam going all the way down and this seam going all the way across and so on. Having the seam that ends right here instead of goes all the way down helps prevent cracking in the mud. Leave at least a half inch gap on the bottom of your drywall so moisture doesn't go up into your drywall. When you go to screw up your drywall, always start in the center and work your way out. Fasten your drywall 3/8 of an inch on your tapered end and put a screw every 12 inches in the field. Working on the butt end of your drywall, put your screws 5/8 of an inch in and put them every 8 inches. So, I know the drywall looks extremely dirty and used and it has a bunch of holes everywhere. That's because it is. It was hanging on the ceiling up here. I just took it down and I'm going to use it on this weld room so I can save both time and money. But anyways, I got drywall to hang. I'll catch you guys later. Peace.