Using a scraper scrape off chunks of debris from the wall to make it as smooth as possible.
Drywall over cinder block wall.
How to put drywall over cinder block step 1.
Poke the foil cover at the.
Install vertical furring strips every 16 inches on the cinder blocks using concrete screws to hold them in.
Measure across a wall both at the top and bottom.
Cut the nozzle end of a tube of construction adhesive at a 45 degree angle using a utility knife.
Drive three concrete nails spaced at even intervals through each side of each hat channel.
The hat channel image 1 should be attached to the wall using concrete nails and concrete nail gun images 2 and 3.
Frame out the rest of the wall by adding faux top and sole plates dropping the top a bit for a drop ceiling if.
First draw a plumb line to make sure the hat channels will be spaced properly for the size of drywall and insulation you re using.
Add some rigid board insulation between the hat.
Begin in an upper.
Use concrete nails and a concrete nail gun to attach the hat channels to the wall after drawing a plumb line to make.
Hold a piece of drywall up to the wall and align it so each edge of the drywall sheet sits in the middle of the furring strips on either side.
Prepping the block walls.
These correspond to the typical.
Furring strips come in.
Run a base furring strip along the bottom of the cinder block wall from end to end.
Repeat for all drywall sheets.
Make marks at either every 16 inches or every 24 inches.
Stretch a chalk line from the first top mark down to the corresponding bottom mark.