Do Floors Or Drywall First

From there you should rip up the floors.

Do floors or drywall first.

A gutted room eliminates much of the dirt and grime associated with removing old carpet tile or wood flooring. The ideal is to first do any prep work to the walls e g ripping up wall paper sanding and patching walls etc. Insulation happens before drywall. The finish flooring can add 3 8 to 3 4 inch to the height of the floor.

You d have to lay the flooring and cover it with industrial plastic sheeting and duct tape the joints to answer your question. When you run a floor sander around a room there is the possibility of scuffing up newly painted walls. The reason for that is that this can damage the floors. Make sure any insulating work and vapor barrier installation are complete before you begin hanging drywall panels.

This will simplify the attachment of the drywall panels to the framing. Install drywall on the walls before installing floor covering. In new construction homes where no flooring has been laid yet this is the way it works. Walls are put up first then the floor covering comes later.

The first step to hanging drywall is to take a pencil and mark on the floor and ceiling the placement of the vertical studs. This recommendation does not apply to subfloor. Yes you could lay the flooring first but you d need to cover it before the drywall went up and that will cost you around 60 to 120 depending on how big your floor space is. Opt for floor installation first because it s often a messy process.

Also it s often better to paint the ceilings first especially given that the ladders will rest on the floors. Even though you will have removed the baseboards. Any gaps that remain between the finish flooring and the drywall typically are hidden beneath base trim that sits at floor. The general construction rule is to work from the top of the room downward.

Time and mess if time is of the essence it s quicker to hang the drywall and tape out the walls first.