Without gypsum cardboard, now there is not a single repair . Probably everyone faced such a problem as leveling the walls. There are two options for mounting the material on the walls: the first is a fixation on a frame of metal profiles or wooden racks, and the second is a plasterboard for glue. Today we will tell you how to glue drywall on the walls with your own hands, and for this we will choose the second variant of installation.
Mounting drywall on the walls with your own hands
- Surface preparation . Bare the necessary part of the wall to the brick or concrete, clean it of the remains of wallpaper, paint. Then remove dust and primer. Before proceeding to the next step, the surface should dry well.
- Preparation of glutinous mixture . On which glue to glue drywall, depends only on the curvature and evenness of the surface to which the material is attached. The more bumps and bulges on the wall, the thicker the solution. In the bucket we pour out the dry mixture, add water and mix it with a homogeneous mass of the desired consistency.
- Alignment options . For professionals, the main tool for measuring the flatness of walls is a level or an ordinary bar. For beginners, we recommend using beacons.
- Bonding of drywall . On a flat wall, apply glue with a notched trowel, on an uneven surface, roll it with small slides. Slides are applied in vertical rows in staggered order with an interval of about 40 cm. Next, it is necessary to paste the gypsum board onto the wall.
- Alignment . To level the plasterboard on the walls without the use of a frame, you can take a regular rail. Press the plasterboard on the wall to the wall, and if you did not use the beacons, monitor the levelness of the levels.
That's the whole process of pasting drywall on the wall. Agree that this is not difficult at all, and you can do without attracting expensive specialists.
