Hello,
I have an older house with studs on 60 cm centers. I've torn down one side of the interior wall to insulate and install OSB+drywall since the room is very echoey.
If I install OSB first, can I then screw the drywall only into the OSB boards on one side and into the studs on the top, bottom, and one long side? I was planning to avoid using 120 cm boards and instead use 90 cm wide drywall, which means one long side of the drywall won't be on a stud.
Will it work, or do I need to add more studs or alternatively use 120 cm drywall?
I have an older house with studs on 60 cm centers. I've torn down one side of the interior wall to insulate and install OSB+drywall since the room is very echoey.
If I install OSB first, can I then screw the drywall only into the OSB boards on one side and into the studs on the top, bottom, and one long side? I was planning to avoid using 120 cm boards and instead use 90 cm wide drywall, which means one long side of the drywall won't be on a stud.
Will it work, or do I need to add more studs or alternatively use 120 cm drywall?
I follow the same approach and it works excellently. I checked with a carpenter just to be safe before I started and he said it was fine. If you have "regular" drywall screws they barely reach the stud in any case.
One downside is that you have to fully screw both layers.. If you had hit the stud spacing with the drywall, it would have been enough to just put up the OSB and then fully screw the drywall - using screws for double drywall, of course, and not the regular ones for single drywall..Bödde said: