How to cut plasterboard sheets

Such a simple, at first glance, how to prepare sheetwall sheets for further use, many beginner builders cause difficulties. Which one to choose the tool and how to use it, this will be discussed later in the article.

A little about the instrument

To correctly cut a sheet of plasterboard, some special tools will not need. All of them are in the set of each repairman and the builder even at the amateur level. In the work it will take:

1. Well-fulfilled pencil, which conduct markup.
2. Roulette, a length of at least three meters.
3. Metal ruler or part of the profile.
4. Tool for cutting plasterboard: knife (stationery or universal), hacksaw, electrolovik, circular saw.
5. Rocking plans - designed to process the edge of the cut. It is better not to try to replace it with a file or use a kitchen grater. The quality will not be something, and the price is low, you can afford to buy.

Types of cuts of plasterboard

Straight - Such a cut reduces the standard sheet to the necessary dimensions.

Mechanism of actions:

• mark on both sides the size that is necessary;
• apply a ruler or profile and spend the knife along the top layer of the sheet. Be sure to use for this lineup. If you just lose the pencil line, and you will spend on top of it with a knife, then incision will not be smooth. Cut the knife along the top layer several times, then you can be sure that the sheet will break through this line;
• put plasterboard on the edge and on the back side, where there is no cut, knock on it without diligence with your knee. After a couple of blows, the sheet must break through the cut line;
• cut the cardboard on line, which connects two parts and can assume that the work is made.

                                                                                            Double-sided neckline - These cutouts are done when in the design of drywall you need to insert a window, door or beam.

Working mechanism:

• make a cutout of the necessary shape on one side of the plasterboard, usually this is a rectangle, and one side is squeezed with a knife, and the second - knife;
• digure a sheet;
• cut the cardboard that holds drywall;
• cutting place to be treated by a relief brang. 3. Round holes - Designed for mounting lamps. They are performed in two ways:

• with the help of the nozzle, which also cut holes for locks on the door. It dresses on a drill and cut a hole;
• cut through with a knife for the necessary diameter of the circle and gently knock it out with a hammer. With the nozzle circle it turns out more beautiful, but this option also takes place. Uneven neckline - these cuts are usually made in the lavatories and bathrooms, where you need to hold water or sewer system through the drywall. The hardest part of this process - this correctly calculate the next cut. Before you cut, you need some time to double-check its target, because it is at this stage spoils a lot of sheets of drywall. Since, if the hole will get more than you need, you will not be able to attach the sheet to the frame, there is no place for self-tapping screws. And if the size is smaller, you have to spend a lot of time to adjust as necessary. As a rule, all of the lines that run smoothly - a combination of a semi-circle with straight lines. Where the straight sections, it would be better to use a hacksaw, and where there is a semi-circle or a bend, then cut with a knife.

Building or stationery knife

Knife for cutting drywall can be like a normal office and a special mounting. They are characterized by massiveness and the fact that the bureaucratic usually cut paper, and construction - more solid materials.
Advantages of using a knife to cut drywall:

1. The knife cuts easily basis of plasterboard and a layer of paper is cut by one touch.
2. Not to be used for his work electricity or fuel.
3. It can be used in any apartment.
4. Cheapness and availability - the new blade is not expensive and you can buy in any store.
5. Mobility - this tool you can always take with you, to interfere with the movement it will not.

Their drawbacks, the main - it is difficult to cut a straight line to the drywall, you first have to draw a line on the sheet and then, after separation of a clear perimeter, can be cut.

Procedure for work:

1. Scheduled for gypsum boards cut line.
2. By the cut-off line, or attach the bar.
3. Carefully cut along the border drawn by the sheet and the core part.
4. If the slice on the table, then push the drywall sheet so that it sagged a couple of centimeters further cut.
5. Lightly tapped a sheet of drywall hand until he cracked.
6. Overturn the plate and cut drywall.
7. Treat the cut-off line of a plane to have smooth edges.

Cutting drywall hacksaw

For cutting drywall is best to take a hacksaw is metal, not wood. Since in the first case, the blade cuts drywall accurately. When cutting the sheets of dust does not happen, and those particles of drywall that crumble, well collected with a vacuum cleaner. Good hacksaw to cut rectangular holes.

Procedure for work:

1. Mark the pencil all four sides of the hole.
2. In every corner make a hole drill. At the same time, it is necessary to keep the holes to be drilled so that they are located inside the part concerned the battered line, but did not cross it. And the diameter of the drilled hole should be so that the knife is easily passed.
3. All sides of the hole cut out with a hacksaw, while watching the hacksaw and sheet to be perpendicular to each other, so the edges will remain more neat.
4. If the sizes of the holes will allow to walk along the edges of the plane, then to use it, if not, then the alternative will become a file.

Cutting drywall electric jigsaw

The electric bike for cutting plasterboard, mostly builders use. The most important thing is what to pay attention is the quality of the pink. It is necessary to take the pinks on the metal, because due to the fact that the teeth are small, then there will be smaller chips on the end. The advantages of the electric bissing more than other tools are:

1. This electric tool has greater performance. So, if you can cut the entire sheet for an hour for an hour, then the jigsaw for the same amount of time you can perform several times more work.
2. No need to apply a lot of physical effort. Of all the work, it is to be done with your own hands - it is to keep a sheet of plasterboard.
3. The power of the tool allows you to cut several layers of plasterboard at once.
4. Good gets rounded items. And if you compare with previous tools, the rounded part cannot be sprinkled in generally with a hacksaw, and if you do it with a knife, you need to additionally process edges.
5. After cutting with electric jigsaw, it is not necessary to handle edges, they will be perfectly smooth.

Among the disadvantages, it is worth it that it is expensive compared to other instruments, and the fact that the jigsik needs electric power, and the generators are not at all construction sites, so people have to use a hand tool.

Procedure for work:

1. Place a sheet of plasterboard.
2. To lay a sheet into two chairs so that between them in the free space there was a cut line.
3. Install the electrolovka at the beginning of the line and slowly spend across the figure.
4. Inside the details drill holes with a drill. The hole must touch the circle from the inside.
5. Lower the electrical device into the hole and cut the necessary figure.

Circular saw: Does it use?

Despite the fact that many builders are not advised to use a circular saw for cutting plasterboard, in principle, there is no ban on this tool. Circular saw is a fairly productive tool. It is easy to work with her, but she has one significant drawback, which makes many to refuse it - this is dust. In a matter of minutes after you start cutting the layers of plasterboard with a saw, everything around the dust from the gypsum. Therefore, when working with it, it is necessary to use the mask and glasses. Otherwise, the dust will fall into the lungs and there and will fall, which will lead to the development of disease.

Useful tips on cutting plasterboard

There are several useful tips as cutting drywall:

1. All work must be carried out on a flat surface, follow the material not to resal.
2. No need to rush and make sharp movements, drywall need to cut smoothly and gradually.
3. Do not wet the material if it is stored in you in a wet area, then be sure to put the pallet under the plasterboard so that the moisture does not hit the layers.
4. If you need to cut off the already mounted design, then check the place of the cut, make a small deepening with a knife and cut it gradually and slowly material so that the sheet does not crumble.
5. If the pieces of drywall have large dimensions, then you need to cut them in several goals.
6. In order to make holes for sockets for wires and communication, it is better to use special nozzles on a drill.

Whatever the tool and method you do not have chosen, remember that the cutting of drywall do it yourself - the process is quite lightweight and even unprofessional, provided that it will accurately perform all the technology of work and take into account useful tips.