Is it so wrong to nail up plasterboards indoors?

[Huddingebo]

Like the video, but his claim that the drywall has gotten worse I definitely do not agree with at home.
On the contrary, the drywall has never been better. Norgips normal std board is fiber-reinforced with what appears to be tiny glass fibers.

Many building materials are not of the same quality as before, but drywall is an exception if you ask me.
So what is said in the video is not necessarily entirely true.

 

[Alexn72]

May I request a picture of the bits and the screw box/screw head

 

[Snickarkirre]

I have been hired on an apartment building construction where everything came in modules. It's a large company that manufactures and builds these. And all their plasterboard, both interior and exterior, was nailed with a type of paper nails. But it's robots that do it, so that's probably the only reason it was nailed and not screwed. Personally, I will never nail plasterboard but sure, it's possible if you want

 

[andersmc]

Here is the reason why not to nail drywall explained. But before drywall screws came along, drywall was probably nailed up in all situations.
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It's interesting that in the USA they have specialists for each task. They are not just "carpenters," they are "framers," "drywallers," "sheeters," "shinglers," etc. And then they also install the drywall horizontally.

But there's not much to be gained by hammering in nails with a hammer. You have to be very skilled for it to actually go faster. You can't miss a single time, either.

I wonder if it's true that drywall has become more porous? Or is it just in the USA?

 

[andersmc]

I have to admit that I despise everything, absolutely EVERYTHING about drywall. They are heavy, cumbersome, fragile and there's dust and trouble involved.

Then I have to acknowledge its advantages, stable form and can be perfectly smoothed at the edges, cheap, fireproof, etc. And I know how much worse it gets with, for example, particleboard, which has been in some parts of the house for ages and has cracked at the seams almost everywhere.

I have a screw gun but found it so much worse with it that I went back to a regular drill. And you have to be so damn careful, and yet the screw tends to go crooked anyway. You have to press hard on the drill to get the damn cross screw to go in, and then you often have to go back and forth a few times to get it to go in properly. The base is 10mm OSB on a very uneven plank wall. (I use OSB for both time and convenience reasons. I can pay 65/m2 for OSB and get it even enough for drywall in a few minutes, or I can spend half a day per drywall sheet fiddling with strips and junk and it still turns out bad).

So yesterday I just needed to patch a small piece in a tight spot where I couldn't get the drill in, and thought "ah, I'll nail it." And it was like a dream, even in the difficult spot, the nail head sat perfectly so that it pressed the cardboard in without tearing it. So as a test, I set a few more elsewhere. Same result. Used a slender wire nail, 50x2. It went fast too, and oh, so much nicer for the now quite tired arm.

Why shouldn't I just continue with this all the way, for example, screw the OSB and then nail up the drywall?

It's interesting how things have developed with the screw gun. When I started my DIY work, screw guns were something truly exclusive. Not even the craftsmen had them. They were hardly available.

Today it's become one of the amateur renovator's standard tools. EVERYONE must have it. Some can't even imagine screwing up a single drywall "by hand," that is, with a regular drill.

How much time is really saved with a screw gun? For a single wall - nothing. In practice, it takes even longer than without the automatic.

But if you're really in a hurry, you should nail up your drywall. A roofing nail gun is perfect.

I've torn down some old houses, and the drywall was nailed. It had worked well for over fifty years, so the method can certainly be approved. But it's important to know what you're doing. There's no turning back.

 

[Danne_83]

I think the main problem is OSB instead of plywood. However, there is a big price difference between the panels, so I understand the choice. The builders I work with usually use plywood, but they aren't always the ones paying...

 

[torparavgrund]

Here I want to insert a somewhat embarrassing confirmation that it was largely a matter of me having bad bits. Not worn out or anything, just bad. I bought a new pair (not the ones linked to above), a kind they had at Byggmax (where I was going anyway) that were about 1½ inches long, with slightly thicker walls in the cross itself and small "grooves" on the sides of these. HUGE difference.

Then I still had to rest my screwdriver arm a bit. Because they are plank walls without battens the OSB is going up on, I nailed it in place. It'll still be screwed later when I put up the drywall, as the screws go about 15 mm deeper than OSB + drywall.

You learn as long as you live. I'm still not getting along with the screw gun, can't get it to properly feed the next screw. Also, it's corded and the lowest speed is still insanely fast. But there are so few panels I need to install that I'm ignoring it, trying to sell it instead. Disappointing when I've heard how good they're supposed to be.