.. >On Jun 22, 1:50 pm, Richard Conway wrote: .. >> Hi all, .. >>
.. >> Just wondering what length of drywall screws people would recommend .. >> using for 12.5mm boards for a ceiling. I've got some to put up at the .. >> weekend and I've got a huge box of 3.5 x 25mm screws and I would rather .. >> use them than buying more (I know they are cheap - it would just save me .. >> a journey :) .. >
.. >You might get away with those for a wall board, but for a ceiling you .. >really want about 1" of screw in the joists. A box of 8 x 1.5" should .. >do you nicely. Make sure you've the torque control on your drill set .. >to something suitable - plasterboard is not especially strong and if .. >you drive the screw deep into the plaster, the edge will crumble away .. >very easily. Screws only need to be just below the paper surface.
I recently painted a few rooms where a lot of the plasterboard fixings which had been skimmed over .... let the plaster crack on the fixings and in some cases the plaster dropped off sed fixings.
Why ?
Mike P