Fire rooms are typically the furnace room or utility room even in the kitchen you can use the five eights thick fire rock. After you have the Tulsa Drywall hung in your home you can then move on to the finishing process by using drywall joint compound to attach paper drywall tape to the joints between the sheets. You will need to make multiple coats of the drywall joint compound to get a seamless cover to make the lines disappear. Thicker drywall is recommended for use on walls in separate spaces like a duplex to help with sound reduction and fire resistance. When picking a texture for your Tulsa Drywall it is important to keep in mind what the style is of your home. A smooth finish will be a more modern look but is a more difficult and time consuming process. An orange peel texture is one of the most common textures for a new residential construction home as it is generally an easier process to apply it to the walls and ceilings of your Tulsa Drywall. The next type is what is called a knock down texture mostly found in older homes. Orange peel texture and knock down texture by 2015 got so popular it was used in over 50% of the new homes in America. A lot of common repairs that will be found and needed on residential homes are things like cracks, small dings in the walls and even tape that may have gotten missed when it was originally installed. A standard residential home wall construction should have two by fours or sometimes a two by six depending on if you want more sound proofing between rooms like the bathroom or the utility room. Residential drywall is mostly different from commercial drywall because it is generally thinner and it has different fire resistance properties.

It is also different when you install it because commercial buildings will use different fasteners mainly made for attaching to metal and not wood like when you are in a residential home. Framing methods are also different and you must keep that in mind when you are picking Tulsa Drywall for your project. In residential homes generally you want to start with hanging the ceilings first and always use as many full sheets as you can to reduce how much waste that you have. After you have the ceilings up you can again, using as many full sheets as you can you will want to then move to the walls starting top down to leave a little space at the floor to help with installation and to also help keep water away from the sheets. You can use what is called a “T square” to help you make straight cuts using a utility knife to score the back side and in a quick motion snap the center and finish by cutting the other side of the paper. This is generally a half an inch thick drywall for most residential homes in modern times in America. Keep the joints staggered to help with strength of the walls and ceiling and to also help hide the joints after you are done installing and need to move on to the finishing process. You can use a special drywall bit to install the screws to make sure that you drive them in enough but not too far as to not break the paper because if you drive the screws too far and break the paper the ceiling drywall sheets can sag over time and make repair a very difficult thing. If you need to make a small adjustment to the size you can use a hand plane to just shave the Tulsa Drywall down just a little bit to make it fit but always make sure that the sheets are one eighth of an inch small to give the drywall finishers room to apply the mud. Keep in mind the the Tulsa Drywall is very dry and will dry out your skin so be sure to wear proper safety equipment.