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Posted by dpb on July 25, 2007, 2:27 pm
The Reverend Natural Light wrote:
> See if you can eyeball it and figure out how the sheets were installed
> originally. Then tear out an entire sheet and install an entire
> sheet. In my experience, that's easier than a bunch of patchwork.
> And it might make it easier to dry everything out and check for
> additional damage.
Yeah, adding two 4' butt seams sounds _so_ much simpler than one foot of
butted seam on the ends to me, too. :)
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>> After a heavy rain, water got into my finished basement. I didn't discover
>> the water until it had been sitting for about a week. On one wall, an area
>> of about 5 feet wide and 6 inches high the sheet-rock has just dissolved and
>> needs to be replaced. Can this damaged area just be cut out and replaced
>> with new? I'm assuming that I need to remove the old sheet-rock starting at
>> the center of the wall studs, so I'll have something to nail to. What should
>> I do about the top of this replacement piece as I won't have a nailing
>> surface?
>>
>> Thanks
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