New construction. On the walls (not the ceilings), my rockers is using glue, and virtually no screws in the field of the sheet. Is this normal practice?
Thanks. Woodside
New construction. On the walls (not the ceilings), my rockers is using glue, and virtually no screws in the field of the sheet. Is this normal practice?
Thanks. Woodside
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Yep. DanT
Yes , to a point , but Im not there . Use your judgement . Butts need to be tight and runs flush and even . Look at it and call it . We dont normally put a lot of screws but they are in the right places.
2 screws in the feild on every stud and 4 at the butts on each side for example. We nail the perimeter off . [every thing thats taped gets nails]
Tim Mooney
Thanks guys. I am normally in favor of new ways of doing things. This sounds like one of those times.
Woodside.
Absolutely. The technical assessment is that using the adhesive cuts down the amount of necessary fasteners by 50%. We've been using this technique for the last 3 remodel jobs (probably 500-600 panels) and I've been very satisfied with the results.
On the front-end there's a few more minutes involved on the install due to the add'l step of applying the adhsesive to the studs/joists. On the back-end you make up for it by having less screws/nails to drive in, less field screws/nails to mud and 50% less potential for nail-pops and high screws moving forward.