Using a scraper scrape off chunks of debris from the wall to make it as smooth as possible.
Drywall over cinder block wall.
Furring strips come in.
These correspond to the typical.
How to put drywall over cinder block step 1.
The hat channel image 1 should be attached to the wall using concrete nails and concrete nail gun images 2 and 3.
Pick the chalk line up pulling it.
Add some rigid board insulation between the hat.
Make marks at either every 16 inches or every 24 inches.
Drive three concrete nails spaced at even intervals through each side of each hat channel.
Frame out the rest of the wall by adding faux top and sole plates dropping the top a bit for a drop ceiling if.
Repeat for all drywall sheets.
Begin in an upper.
Poke the foil cover at the.
Hold a piece of drywall up to the wall and align it so each edge of the drywall sheet sits in the middle of the furring strips on either side.
Stretch a chalk line from the first top mark down to the corresponding bottom mark.
Measure across a wall both at the top and bottom.
Install vertical furring strips every 16 inches on the cinder blocks using concrete screws to hold them in.
Attach the drywall to the furring strips with a nail gun and one inch drywall nails.
Run a base furring strip along the bottom of the cinder block wall from end to end.
First draw a plumb line to make sure the hat channels will be spaced properly for the size of drywall and insulation you re using.
Prepping the block walls.