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- From: patter@dasher.cc.bellcore.com (patterson,george r)
- Subject: Re: Drywall Repair Questions
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 93 02:03:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.020306.15444@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <1993Jan01.093719.147406@ultramac.uucp>
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- In article <1993Jan01.093719.147406@ultramac.uucp> GioF@ultramac.uucp (Gio Favignano) writes:
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- >Hanging the sheet horizonally lets the recessed edge run horizontally. and the
- >Butt Joint run vertically which can be screwed or nailed every few inches on a
- >stud (which is Better) rather than every 16 or 24 inches (which ever the stud
- >layout is).
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- In a properly done wall, there *are* no butt joints; the rock is bought
- long enough to run the entire height or width of the wall and hung
- accordingly. Properly done, the butt edge of the rock is at the top and
- bottom of the wall, where it can be screwed to the header and footer, and
- each tapered edge splits a stud. You will have no unsupported edges of
- either type if the hanger does his or her job correctly. The only exception
- is a bathroom behind a tub. There, you want the factory paper edge (the
- tapered edge) against the tub (actually, one leaves a half inch gap) to
- keep water from "wicking" up into the plaster core.
-
- The only place you have unsupported joints is in ceilings. I've seen
- them hung both directions and fail to see any reason to prefer one over
- the other. Still, I personally hang ceiling rock in my house with the
- tapered joints on the joists. Elsewhere, the boss called the shots.
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