any tips for cutting drywall for the ceiling cuz i keep gettin stuf wrong?

Answer 1

yea use a bx cutter and a straght edge just run the razor across the the dry wall 2-3 time and put presur on the drywall like u wana brake ita nd it will snappoff in a perfict line

Answer 2

Go to your local lumber yard and get yourself a "T" square, they cost about $15 and are well worth the investment. Those things make shure that you will have a strait cut every time.

Also All you need to do is score the sheet once, then either stand the sheet up or go to the other side and just "break" it then cut along the fold in the sheet
Hope this helps

Answer 3

Agree with DIY Doc, you don't give enough information for a specific answer.
Are you coming up too short, too long, having problems getting it to the ceiling in place so you can attach it, actually cutting it, making it fit a potentially unsquare room, etc.
Need more info to give a resonse that fits your needs.

Answer 4

dont assume that your ceiling is square, meaning measure the angles not just the lengths any small discrepancies will be flushed afterwards I presume. If you keep making mistakes ask a ceiling fixer in your area to give you a hand and maybe he has a job he needs a hand with that you have knowledge of.

Answer 5

Here is a suggestion: Make yourself a couple of sheet rock Ts. Use 2x4s to make a letter T just a bit too long to stand up under your ceiling. You can use these to wedge the piece of sheetrock up against the ceiling.

Once you have it wedged in place, you can use a key hole saw or rotary tool to cut it in place. That's the way I do it. I get sheetrock dust in my face, but it saves me time, cussing and wasted sheetrock.

Answer 6

Measure TWICE, cut once.....

Use a proper large metal SQUARE and you may want to add a roofing square to the mix.

Always mark with a carpenter pencil and score it with a SHARP knife like a boxcutter ( replaceable blades in handle )

Answer 7

cut it upside down..... the back of the sheetrock facing you. I used to mess up like that too and its because i was laying out my cuts and meausrements on the face side of the sheetrock, only to find out it was backwards once i flipped it over to hang it on the ceiling. "young" framers make the same mistakes while decking roofs. no big deal

Answer 8

Every answer so far offers valid suggestions; but any of us can only assume how you define "WRONG" since you offered no details.

Without those details NONE of us might give you an answer that fits; while all of us might offer EVERY possible suggestion/solution.

Let us know what "WRONG" is.

Steven Wolf

Answer 9

All measure it twice and then cut.