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I reported to duty last Thursday night as crew leader for a Habitat for Humanity new buuild in Lansing, Michigan and found the drywall taper there shaking his head. I thought we’d done a great job hanging the board, but I learned differently. He pointed out that we should have broke all the but-joints over the windows and doors as to reduce the span of the joint to roughly 16″ rather than the resulting 3’joint found beyond that point. I’d always been told to NEVER break a joint over a door as cracking would occur w/all the stress from door closing. No, he said. In all his years (25) he’d never seen this to be a problem.
Any opinions on this one?
Regards, 14-0
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14-0
Joints
b over
doors and windows are fine.
But what you should
b never do
is have your joints in line with the corners of a window or door.
Steven
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If a window or an opening is to have dry wall returns with cornerbead, breaking the drywall at the corner is ok. If casings are to be used the drywall should not be broken at the corner of the casing, because the miter will not go on flat and tight. Breaking in the middle of a header over a door or window is ok, in fact it is often the easiest way to hang.
*14,At the risk of sounding arrogant, I'd suggest you be careful with the terminology....."breaking drywall joints"? Did you mean "making" drywall joints, ie, breaking drywall material. To be honest, I had to read the other posts to understand what you were doing.Brian
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14-0 We always try to avoid breaking seams over doors and windows at all times.I've been in many homes that have major cracks above doors from being done this way.Of course it isn't the only reason the cracks have shown up,but it helped.
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I reported to duty last Thursday night as crew leader for a Habitat for Humanity new buuild in Lansing, Michigan and found the drywall taper there shaking his head. I thought we'd done a great job hanging the board, but I learned differently. He pointed out that we should have broke all the but-joints over the windows and doors as to reduce the span of the joint to roughly 16" rather than the resulting 3'joint found beyond that point. I'd always been told to NEVER break a joint over a door as cracking would occur w/all the stress from door closing. No, he said. In all his years (25) he'd never seen this to be a problem.
Any opinions on this one?
Regards, 14-0