How do you Plasterboard round a girder?

[dylanh]

Hi, How do you plasterboard round a girder?

I've seen people hammer in pieces of wood to the side's in order to board the sides, but what about the bottom?

Cheers

 

[JohnD]

nail them to the wood at the sides

you want to end up with the wooden frame of a box round the steel.

 

[noseall]

when fixing the side plasterboard, allow it to sit down below the steel flange by 18mm. then dab some board within this slot with full fill dry wall adhesive.

 

[dylanh]

ah ha, Thats how its done

Thanks

 

[Micilin]

ah ha, Thats how its done

Thanks

Better still, score the board on one side so that it wraps around the beam.


ie You have a strip with two folds in it so that it can fold into a u shape the same dimensions as the beam. You tack one side aas normal, you can put a bit of adhesive or gripfill on the beam , wrap the boiard around it and tack the other side as normal.

(You have noggings in each side of teh beam)