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How to Bend Drywall - Drywall Repair Near Me

How to Bend Drywall

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Every homeowner wants to add some additional touch in remodeling a project or home décor to enhance and maximize the lavishing look and feel of the living hall. If you want to equip your home with on-demand trendy items, some curved shapes probably help you a lot in this regard. If you’re thinking that bending drywall will take a lot of struggle and would prove a headache for you, then you’re far away from the truth.

The first and foremost factor of bending the drywall is to slowly bring both ends together and don’t force it to come back into the form. Some proven tips will facilitate you to achieve the desired curve that you want for your home establishment and decoration.

Choose Frame Radius

The essential and very first step for molding the gypsum board is to ascertain the radius of the board. The radius should be proper in size with which the board can be bent easily. The gypsum affiliation provides enough guidelines to yield the best results for drywall depending on its thickness, ideally, it should be 5/8-inch for a 15-foot radius, 1/2 -inch drywall board for 10-foot radius, and 3/8-inch drywall board for 7-foot radius and ¼-inch drywall board for 5-foot radius. Take a measuring tool, let’s say, it’s a tape and finds out the bend radius of the curvature from its starting to the ending point.

Choose Drywall

Once you’ve ascertained the radius of the drywall, start thinking about the drywall thickness and matches. A larger radius means a thicker drywall board, details are given above. Selecting the required thickness that matches well with the bending curve drywall would help you a lot.

Wet the Drywall

The most appropriate and well-known method to convert drywall into a curve is to attach wet paper on both sides of the board. Dip paint roller into the water tub and use it to damp the drywall. don’t use water excessively. Once you notice that the drywall board is pliable and you can easily manipulate it, remove it from water.

Build Curve Radius

Take wet drywall and bend it into the desired curve radius. If you become successful in getting the shape of the curve, put drywall over it and stretch both its ends internally. As far as you pull the board to get the desired shape, avoid applying excessive pressure. Excessive pressure will break the gypsum board and tear it into pieces.  Once the curve is achieved, let it dry thoroughly for a night. You will get a drywall board in a new form.

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