Posted: 2/11/2011 11:12:44 AM EDT
| I'm turning a garage into a bed room at our river cottage and have the slab raised and the framing done. I have sheet rocked other walls in the house (it was cinder block when we bought it) but the ceilings were already in and they were tongue and groove. Does it matter if I put the walls up before the ceiling with sheetrock? I am going to end up putting crown molding up afterward anyway. THX |
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Ceiling first. The reason why? The board on the walls will give support to the edges of the board on the ceiling, preventing sagging between the ceiling joists. And it will sag slowly over time and cause the ceiling/wall joints to crack and seperate if not done this way. |
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Ceiling first. The reason why? The board on the walls will give support to the edges of the board on the ceiling, preventing sagging between the ceiling joists. And it will sag slowly over time and cause the ceiling/wall joints to crack and seperate if not done this way. this is the right way to do it |
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Quoted: Quoted: Ceiling first. The reason why? The board on the walls will give support to the edges of the board on the ceiling, preventing sagging between the ceiling joists. And it will sag slowly over time and cause the ceiling/wall joints to crack and seperate if not done this way. this is the right way to do it Exactly. Lid first, then top course, and lastly bottom course. Stagger your seams everywhere. Use a good drywall screwdriver set to the correct depth, too! |
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Ceiling first. The reason why? The board on the walls will give support to the edges of the board on the ceiling, preventing sagging between the ceiling joists. And it will sag slowly over time and cause the ceiling/wall joints to crack and seperate if not done this way. this is the right way to do it Exactly. Lid first, then top course, and lastly bottom course. Stagger your seams everywhere. Use a good drywall screwdriver set to the correct depth, too! And if you have a narrow strip put it between the upper wall sheets and lower wall sheets. It beats crawling or using stilts for the strip. It is at a nice height to work. |
. Even with a ceiling jack.|
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Ceiling first. The reason why? The board on the walls will give support to the edges of the board on the ceiling, preventing sagging between the ceiling joists. And it will sag slowly over time and cause the ceiling/wall joints to crack and seperate if not done this way. +1 |
| If your going to do it that way the strongest joint would be with paper tape and general purp. mud. Not lightweight. If it's going to get crown just fire-tape and be done with it. If you really want your crown to look good the panels can be run vertical and then you have a non-tapered area at the top of the ceiling. If you don't you'll need to flat tape the joint at the ceiling, or cut off at least 3 inches on the top of the panel, taking off the tapered area. I'd just use some hot mud and flat skim the top if you left the taper. Food for thought. |