Hello!
I'm not quite sure if this is the right forum to post in, so a moderator can certainly move it, my apologies. :-[
About a year ago, I put up an interior wall using wood studs and floor gypsum boards (Danogips) but now I want to tear down this wall and I have no idea how to unscrew the gypsum boards again since there's putty and paint over the screws, or rather, I can't even find the holes where the screws are.
Does anyone have any good tips on how to easily tear down an interior wall?
I would prefer not to use a sledgehammer as it might disturb the neighbors.
Thanks and goodbye!
I'm not quite sure if this is the right forum to post in, so a moderator can certainly move it, my apologies. :-[
About a year ago, I put up an interior wall using wood studs and floor gypsum boards (Danogips) but now I want to tear down this wall and I have no idea how to unscrew the gypsum boards again since there's putty and paint over the screws, or rather, I can't even find the holes where the screws are.
Does anyone have any good tips on how to easily tear down an interior wall?
I would prefer not to use a sledgehammer as it might disturb the neighbors.
Thanks and goodbye!
You can locate the studs with a stud detector. I have a combined stud finder, electrical finder, and metal detector. It's admittedly not very accurate, but once you've found the studs (you could probably also locate them by listening and tapping on the wall), you might be able to expose them and find the screws?
Here's what you do!!!Hejman said:
1) Take out a saw, electric or manual, it doesn't matter.
2) Knock on the wall to hear where the studs are.
3) In the middle between 2 studs, make a vertical saw cut. Also, cut out a little so you can get your hands in.
4) Tear the board off up to the stud.
5) Now continue tearing, either you've hit the middle stud then take a pry bar and loosen the board, then grab it again up to the joint. Alternatively, you're at the joint, then do the same thing, if you can't get hold of the strip, then tear it off. If you're lucky, the screws will be visible, unscrew them and tear...
That's how I did it during my active career when I was tearing down in places like offices with people in them or when I was at people's homes tearing down.....
Oh, what a golden opportunity to vent... the neighbors surely won't complain about half an hour of unrestrained anger? 
;D 8)
Otherwise, I think you should take a knife and just carve a hole in the plaster, then take out the crowbar and pry off the panels one by one. (You probably don't want the plaster in too large panels anyway. It's easier to handle in a garbage bag, in my opinion.).
;D 8)Otherwise, I think you should take a knife and just carve a hole in the plaster, then take out the crowbar and pry off the panels one by one. (You probably don't want the plaster in too large panels anyway. It's easier to handle in a garbage bag, in my opinion.).