Here's a checklist of items that need to be installed before the drywall goes up: Electrical: All wiring and electrical boxes installed for wall outlets, switches, and light fixtures. Plumbing: Drain lines along with hot and cold water lines. Heating and Cooling: Any ductwork for room vents and air return.
However, if this is your first time installing drywall, tuck the wire in the electrical box and don't install the outlet until the end of the project. It is much easier that way.
It's electric!
After framing, but before the drywall is installed, there will be a rough-in stage of electrical installation when access is still available to the space between the studs, floor joists, and ceiling joists.
One of the first things people get confused about when trying to install an electrical outlet is which way is right side up! While it's a topic heavily debated among electricians, the bottom line is, it doesn't matter if you install the outlet with the ground hole up or down — technically.
Connect the new wires to the new outlet: white (neutral) wire to a silver-colored terminal screw; black (hot) wire to a gold-colored terminal screw; bare wire to the green grounding screw. Finally, call the electrical inspector to check your work.
Wiring usually runs horizontally, about an inch into the wall. The parameters are 6 inches or 12 inches above the receptacle.
Wall Drywall Layout
Professional drywall installers consider horizontal placement to be a stronger form of installation. Start with the top row of drywall sheets and butt them up against the ceiling. Then, add the lower row of drywall sheets. This row will usually need to be cut down a few inches.
Stage 6: Interior Trim and Doors Complete
Once the drywall and texture is complete, carpenters will begin to install the key features of your home. Trim (such as baseboards and crown molding) will be installed, and your home will start to take on a more finished look.
After drywall has been completed the exterior siding of the home will begin. You will see the brick, stonework, stucco, or whatever your using getting being laid out. Exterior Driveway/Walkway. It is at this point that additional exterior finishes like a garage and outdoor walkways are poured with concrete.
Tips For Rewiring a House Without Removing the Drywall
One solution is securing the cable to joists or rafters using wire staples. The electrician needs to make sure that each wire is perfectly anchored to the appropriate device electrical box using the correct clamp.
Pros often use a fish tape for long vertical pulls to avoid removing drywall altogether, except for small access holes necessary for drilling through the wall plates. At each end of the cable run, insert the end of the cable into the electrical box, using whatever cable clamps are necessary.
The front edge of the box must be flush with the finished wall surface, usually 1/2-inch-thick drywall. Some boxes have depth gauges. You can use a scrap of drywall to position the box.
Outlets are typically attached to the studs inside walls with nails that tack them into the side of the stud. Therefore, you can pretty much guarantee that there will be a stud located immediately to either side of an outlet.
Interior finishing.
This is when the inside of your house starts to look like a house, with the drywall and most of the carpentry completed. Expect about two months.
There are three phases to drywall finishing: tape coating, finish (or skim) coating, and the sanding and touch-up work you'll do at the end. Before you begin, however, you'll need to mix the fast-setting compound into a paste about the consistency of warm cake icing (without lumps or bubbles).
When hanging drywall, always hang the ceiling first. This is the hardest drywall to hang, so get a partner and go slow. Large cracks due to misaligned sheets are hard to repair because the extra mud required to fill them will constantly fall out and drop to the floor (or worse, down the back of your neck!).
Doing the ceiling first means you can lift the wall sheets to make a tight joint. By contrast if you do the walls first you would have to sculpt every edge to make it seat tightly, and/or end up with lots of voids to fill before you tape.
How Do You Hang Drywall on Walls: Vertical or Horizontal? On commercial jobs, fire codes often require seams to fall on the entire length of the framing, so the drywall must be hung vertically. However, on residential jobs, the drywall on the walls is typically hung horizontally.
Avoid drilling near light sockets or outlets
One of the main reasons drilling into the wall can be dangerous is that you risk hitting electrical wires or gas and water pipes.
You can theoretically run any number of outlets to a 15-amp circuit, but there are practical limitations here. On a traditional 15-amp circuit, each outlet can draw 1.5 amps—that's 10 outlets. The 80% rule (used by electricians) says you should only use 80% of a circuit's total allowance, so that takes us to 8 outlets.