Thread: vertical plaster hanging?

I have hung it both ways with no dramas. I always judge by the room dimensions and best fit.

The joins need to be supported by studs if hung vertically. Your studs would need to be spaced exactly 600mm apart evenly across the room so a joins fell on the center of a stud without cutting the sheet. Or you would have to nogg at 600mm centers to support the join. The join must be supported at a minimum of 600mm centers.

The only time I would hang a sheet vertically is if the wall was no wider than the sheet, therefore no join. or when installing metal stud partitions where the studs can be positioned to fall on a join. In which case the joins are staggered so there is never a join on each side of the stud.

In New Zealand most plasterboard is hung vertically but the carpenters hang all the plasterboard and set the studs out to accomadated this installation method.

With a 3m high wall I would start with a 600mm strip on the bottom and a 1200 + 1200 sheets on top. This will put both joins at easy reach without the need for scaffold.

Honorary Bloke has the dissadvatage in the states that they do not make more than a 3.6m sheet in most places, meaning they have more butt joints, where we can lay a 6m sheet down with no butt joints.

Cheers Rod

In the states they do it that way all the time just make sure your studs line up so you have support at the edges

You beat me to it Rod

Originally Posted by rod@plasterbrok

Honorary Bloke has the dissadvatage in the states that they do not make more than a 3.6m sheet in most places, meaning they have more butt joints, where we can lay a 6m sheet down with no butt joints.

Cheers Rod

6 metres? Do you use a crane?

No we just get huge shoulders!

Never take on a plasterer at an arm wrestle LOL