Drywall Screws and Nails

Tim Carter, the AsktheBuilder.com guru, shows you exactly how small nails and screws hold heavy pieces of drywall up on ceilings.

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• drywall
• tools
• nails
• screws
• ceilings
• hammers

[zipperneck1321]

Not really, here in frogland, drywall is secured to a metal frame structure based on horizontal base and ceiling "rails" with vertical uprights between the two. Horizontal joints between panels are thus "in the air". There is no framework structure along those joints. The mfgs recommend special drywall to drywall screws with a large bite, but they are essentially unavailable.

[AsktheBuilder]

@zipperneck1321 Coarse thread drywall screws are a commodity here in the USA. Just Google them. I would use adhesive then between the sheets and then the screws. Good luck. Can you tape a video of your framework? I can't see how the original sheet of drywall was secured if one/two of the edges is *not* along some framing. That seems insane. Come back here and tell us when that video is on your channel.

[zipperneck1321]

essentially means - bugle head screw with a wide pitch). Unfortunately, even though the mfg recommends these screw... ya can't find them because nobody stocks them. They say, we don't stock 'em cause the pros don't use them...

What do you yanks do?

[AsktheBuilder]

@zipperneck1321 I would try to screw through to the original framing. Can't you do that? Surely you can locate the joists or steel framing and use longer regular screws to permanently fasten the new drywall. Right?

[popcorn4two]

Right on Tim, but you should also mention that when using the ring shank nails, it requires two of them an inch apart from one another to have the holding power of one screw.

[AsktheBuilder]

@popcorn4two Thanks. Good point, but this video was just about the fasteners. The video you want - and should be done by you at your channel - is about *installing* the nails. To show what you want, you need to be hanging a sheet of drywall. Remember, the title was just about the fasteners.

[zipperneck1321]

An important point that I think I forgot to mention - my project includes walls that run from 2.5m to 3.30m in height. A standard panel is only 2.60m in height so some portions will have a horizontal joint in the middle of the wall. For these panels, I'll be using panels with the thin edges on all 4 sides (costs more but a nicer finish in the end.)

[zipperneck1321]

I've got a question for you. What screws do you use to secure plasterboard to plasterboard? I live in France, and here in frogland certain drywall applications (sound insulation) involve installing a sheet of 13mm (or other thickness) drywall onto another sheet. The vertical edges are secured into a metal framework, but the horizonal edges are screwed into the drywall behind it. Can you follow that?

At any rate, the drywall manufacturers specify specific screws for this (screw TTPL - which

[pilotdude1123]

@popcorn4two not true. many sheetrockers i know, and i have seen them do is the two sheetrockers nail on all the edges of the sheetrock. hence hanging sheetrock. then another guy comes along and screws on the whole sheet. normally placing a screw next to the nail. that is how hanging the sheetrock works, its alot faster and thats why most of them hang it.

[boomboom2005]

tim carter is the most straight forward person i have seen here on youtube.