Installing Drywall On Concrete Block Walls

Before you can install these panels you ll have to do some demolition.

Installing drywall on concrete block walls.

Make marks at either every 16 inches or every 24 inches. When insulating concrete basement walls a good idea because concrete basement walls are often cold use rigid. Then to account for the foam s additional thickness add jamb extensions to the windows and doors and fur out around their openings. The hat channel image 1 should be attached to the wall using concrete nails and concrete nail gun images 2 and 3.

Prepping the block walls. Using a scraper scrape off chunks of debris from the wall to make it as smooth as possible. If installing drywall panels use moisture and mildew resistant drywall. Drive three concrete nails spaced at even intervals through each side of each hat channel.

Use concrete nails and a concrete nail gun to attach the hat channels to the wall after drawing a plumb line to make sure you ve spaced the hat channels properly for the size of drywall and insulation you re using. Remove all the trim from the exterior walls window and door casings baseboards crown molding you name it and rip the drywall and studs off the block walls. Cut enough furring strips from 1 by 3 inch lumber with a circular saw to allow you to space them 16 inches apart for the entire width of the wall as measured from the center of each strip. Poke the foil cover at the.

Drive three concrete nails spaced at even intervals through each side of each hat channel. Now as you glue the panels to the exposed concrete blocks leave a inch gap at the floor and ceiling and cut holes in. These correspond to the typical. Measure across a wall both at the top and bottom.

How to glue drywall to the interior of concrete block walls. Stretch a chalk line from the first top mark down to the corresponding bottom mark.