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 Although I still have two walls to insulate (those needing R19), I decided to go ahead and start hanging the drywall. Since I've never done this before, I thought I'd enlist the help of someone who has some experience- my brother-in-law, Gino.
Gino has finished two basements on his own, and graciously offered to show up at 8:00 a.m. on a Saturday to help me get started. After a morning coffee and some muffins, we were ready to go!
Getting started hanging drywall
We decided to start in the back, right corner of the basement and work our way around clockwise. (just like I did with the framing- see "Starting construction- Hammer Time".) This meant that we had a series of short walls, two doors, ductwork, and pipes to work around right off the bat.
Since I had to have the drywall cut to get it in the basement (See Drywall, insulation and hardware delivery), my installation is a little more complicated than most because I'm using a short sheet (2 feet) on the bottom, and a larger sheet (about 5 ½ feet) on the top.
We decided to hang the drywall for each wall on the bottom first, then go back and do the top. Since I decided to use glue in addition to screws, we'd measure, cut, and test fit each piece, then add the glue. Finally we'd secure each piece with screws.
The added glue step made the work a little messy, and also slowed us down quite a bit. Despite that, we made good progress during our seven hours of work on Saturday- working all the way around to the closet under the basement steps.
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