Home improvement

In the past, many homes were built with unfinished basement, and the homeowner moisture storage room, laundry room, or the collection of spider webs and dust bunnies usually dark areas in the open air, is used. You also may have purchased and now with the high price of new homes, we expand on our current home in order for your family's needs (covenants really allow 10 story ranch houses?) To complete. The answer seems unfinished basement! Want to do it myself? I suggest you start with the expulsion of dust bunnies! Then we have to finish the basement walls. Easy, right? Just blow some plaster and duct tape! Evil indeed is this way: Look at the amount of moisture in your basement. Damp walls? There are mushrooms growing in the corner? There are in any standing water anywhere? (If you have children to wear life jackets when they need to go down, you can have a water problem). Ideas for you to get rid of water entry should call a professional. It has been well spent and prevent many problems drywall and lath (wooden long, thin strips that you have solid, let's face into the drywall) later.Estimate height of strips that you need is money. The wall for every 4 feet (we are assuming that your ceiling is less than 8 meters) drywall and have a letter of 4 furring strips.

A crack in the wall bars about hell? Cm in case water seeps under the tape on the floor, make sure the stripes are vertical (use your hand-dandy level) and wall (with a masonry bit) on 16-inch hole. To its more practical - Banka drill.Shim on a plane with blade hardened concrete drywall screws to make the drive.Use a nail to make it level if necessary. Repeat this process to ensure that all strips of insulation and vapor barrier first.Add straightforward. Both are at your local home improvement. Placing insulation panels between the strips increases the R-value of the ground floor. Surface resistance R-value measures heat loss. All you have to do it, cut insulation to size and press the band. Plastic vapor barrier will help minimize moisture penetration. Barrier bar staples, but many barriers to the surface, try not enthusiastic with the stapler. Holes in the barrier, moisture can penetrate more.

Cut in Drywall. Drywall should also be set? Wet floor on the floor. A ruler or bite marks on the face of the gypsum-line use of a class. If you do not have a ruler or T-square, use the edge of a strip of tape. Plaster can be easily cut with a knife. Just cut through the paper. workpiece is then burst into the back wall. Then with a knife you can cut through the paper backing. Simple, huh? Screw the drywall strips. The best way is to make a chalk line on each strip of tape (remember how much you mean?) With drywall screws on the need to use? -Inch drywall screws and be the face so deep that it breaks the surface of paper to be careful.

Finishing the wall. Okay, now for some art! Or really, really bad - you can actually look at the wall! Between slabs of dry wall crack Apply a coat of drywall compound. Layer should be about 3 cm wide, more or less. Then apply a strip of adhesive plaster and a thin layer of compound over the tape is applied. Then you fill a connection with all the screw holes. To change the surface is as smooth as possible (easier said than done!) Try. The first layer dries (usually 24-36 hours), the protruding or irregular clumps and scrape a thin layer of compound with a wide spatula. Sanding and painting are ready!