Horizontal or vertical plasterboard sheets on stud wall?

[Alastairreid]

I had to google sanatogen there ree, now i understand why you are up through the night posting when the rest of us are up for work in the morning.

Apologies for being hard on you! never my intention to mock the afflicted, there is help available when you are ready.
Take care. x

 

[bobasd]

Good morning duvet campers. A very good morning to you.

 

[Nige F]

"Ignore button time!" - what a curious thing to say?
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The poster was endecotp .#15 Not Alastairreid

 

[StephenStephen]

OP,
You and any others following this are being advised well wrong:
For a number of reasons plasterboard is always fixed horizontal to studding, do not try and re-invent a trade practice thats used across the world of drywall.

Why give yourselves extra work and possible difficulties?

I've even fixed 12ft and 16ft lengths - they can be life savers in residential work, and a must in commercial jobs.
Try hanging them vertical.

No matter the type or length of board used it goes on horizontal.

I'm curious (and am about to put up a stud wall) - what are the number of reasons? I guess I'm thinking that there may be good reasons for doing things a certain way on new build and big projects, but which might be fine for me to do differently in my little spare bedroom...

 

[Nige F]

I'm curious - what are the number of reasons? ..

It doesn't look like you'll get a sensible answer , but when I looked @ the US site it said that vertical fixing was acceptable too.