Drywall Installation - Drywall installation - Pass inspection

Welcome back. We are going to talk about what the inspector is going to look for when he comes here tomorrow to check our drywall. He will, like I told you before he will look for screwing to make sure that we have nice screw holes and we haven't inserted our screw holes too deep. Once again kind of an example of a wrong screw would probably like, I'm having a hard time finding one. It would kind of be something like this where the skin is broke and then an explanation of a really good one would probably be one like that where it is just really good and then the next thing he will probably look at is just the right types of drywall in the right places and once again we went over that and we talked about how you should put green board over any kind of plumbing and the white board we use for any walls that don't have plumbing in them and for ceilings. Inspectors usually won't let you put green board on the ceilings. I have actually been through that before and they call for only white gypsum board on the ceilings. The next thing he'll also look at is to make sure that I staggered my joints properly and what I mean by that is that we don't have any up and down joints or lining up with each other like side to side usually is cool and it's alright to have the joints lined up going down a line but up and down they prefer to make sure that whenever you cut a piece of drywall you land center on the stud and when you land center on the stud that you don't make a cross when you do it. They would rather that you try and stagger the joints as much as possible. Like if there is a joint here you don't want it to come down here. You want that joint to move over to some place that is not in line with what is up there and the reason they do that is just because it is stronger when you have a cross happening with drywall in line it is weaker. It will flex easier and if you have it staggered when it goes to flex it won't flex as easy on that. That's pretty much it. They like to see tight lines on it. I always, every time I do drywall you always find that when you cut sometimes you cut wrong and nobody's perfect so instead of wasting a hole sheet of drywall or make an error cutting a box in like that one right there. We had a nice big chunk. You cut in and you make a little error like that. You cut the box a little too big. Usually the inspector will o'kay that and he'll let you pass and when you come in you just have to fill in around your boxes with mud and usually it is a high priority when you are mudding is to make sure you go around each receptacle box and make sure that you get a nice tight fit so that all your electrical cover plates fit nice and snug over the actual electrical box. So I think that's about it. As far as what they're going to look for, they'll look for the corner bead and make sure that everything is screwed off properly, make sure all your screwing is right. When you have, like I said 6 in the edge, 12 in the field of screws and probably like 6 and 8 or 4 and 8 with nails. This is simply because nails aren't as strong as screws. I usually like to over do everything and that way I don't have to worry about anything. When the inspector comes you know, if I have got it nice and tight and they're usually pretty cool about it. So I usually go every 6 inches instead of 6 and 12 and that about covers it. Thank you very much.