I've always been decent building with my hands. Redoing walls, putting up wood paneling, installing custom electrical (to code), etc. However, i've never put up drywall and lucky me my first time will be not only on a ceiling but doing it solo. So after watching many DIY video's, i've come down to having two questions. 1) I saw some professional's from a HomeDepot video say you must use liquid nail. Their reasoning is that over time gravity will reveal the screw's and it'll look bad. I've also read that this is overkill and if done right you won't have this problem. Which is it? I've read reasons for not doing so (replacement issues), and reasons to do it. Some contractors say it's required, some say it's not. But does it really matter? Does it make that much of a difference? -- Followup to this question: The beams are metal studs. So even if liquid nail is added help would it even work on the metal beams? I've always had the impression that liquid nail is for wood-to-anything but metal surface. 2) As mentioned prior, I will be doing this solo. I probably could call a buddy to come over but because of time constraints and scheduling it would just be easier to do it solo. Lol ... "easier." Anyways, after watching many DIY videos of people putting up sheetrock by themselves they always create devices to help them, most of them using one or more T's. This one guy just held the whole thing up with one arm and his head. But ever video was the same. They all had great difficulty and rightfully so. Putting up drywall by yourself isn't easy. Anyways... so here is my question. Why not cut the 4x8 drywall into 4x4's? With the studs being 2 feet (center) spaced apart, then why not? Sure there would be more taping but wouldn't it make doing it all solo easier?

hi again guys. we took possession of our new house and immediately went in to start priming. one room in the basement has a cold storage of sorts, and that half of the room was covered in wood panelling, the previous owner was using it as a bar area. I specifically asked him what was under the panelling, he told me drywall. So we thought this would be easy, rip off the panelling, patch up the drywall, prime and paint and it's done. We ran into a few problems. the 2 walls adjoining the cold storage are concrete, and the previous owners have wallpapered right over it. the place has all new windows but at some point their old windows were apparently letting in moisture, so the concrete closest to the window is crumbly. there's a hole cut out by the floor to allow access to a drain in the cold storage since there's a water softener in there, but the hole was covered by the wood panelling anyway. the back wall and half of the right-hand wall are wallpapered right onto raw drywall. =_= so I'm not sure how to strip the wallpaper from either the concrete or the drywall without doing damage, and not sure where to go after that. we're thinking we can either: -plaster over the concrete to get a smooth paintable finish, or -put up some strapping and then drywall overtop of it. the problem with this is there's a doorframe on one part of the wall, and the corner where it joins with the finished part of the room has a window. the windowframe goes right up to the corner, and we actually tore a bit of the trim around the window off trying to get the panelling off. since the window was redone long after the panelling was put up, seems that it was overlapping overtop of the panelling. so is the brand new flooring, so bits of the panelling are still stuck in there around the flooring, but whatever we can't get out will be covered when the trim goes back on so that's not a huge deal. seems to me that plaster is the way to go here, otherwise we're looking at rebuilding the doorjam and would run into issues with the window. (though if we went with drywall we could even add a bit of insulation.) the issue with plastering is the crumbly area and the hole in the concrete wall. i don't *think* there's a mould issue but it definitely smells musty in there after pulling off the panelling. our longterm plan is to convert that cold storage into a walk-in closet, but i don't think it's going to happen just yet. i would honestly rather tear it right out but hubby doesn't think it's possible (well anything is possible, but he says it would be very difficult and expensive) so anyways I guess I'm wondering if anyone more experienced can put in their 2 cents here, and maybe give us an idea of what we're looking at in terms of doing it ourselves vs cost if we hire this out? the areas are quite small, i don't have measurements but will get them later today as well as pics. it's half the width of a small-ish bedroom and I dunno, maybe 6 feet deep?