2023 Author: Philip Bishop | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-05-24 22:24
After the completion of work with drywall sheets, pieces and trimmings remain. Most consumers simply throw away the leftover material.
No need to rush!
The remaining drywall scraps are perfect for making various casings or false panels, shelves and tables, cabinets and partitions.
With a lot of imagination, pieces of drywall make an excellent mosaic canvas.
Surely among you there are skilled people who love to create various things with their own hands.
This article provides some helpful tips for using drywall waste.
Since the basic and related materials are inexpensive, anyone who is ready to do something out of drywall with their own hands can work with the components.
What can you do from pieces of drywall with your own hands?
From the remains of drywall, you can make bedside tables, shelves, kitchen cabinets, various furniture.
But first things first
Since the plasterboard sheet is a rather fragile material, it is necessary to fix parts from it on the frame.
For the manufacture of the frame, both a galvanized metal profile and a wooden block or rail are suitable.
It is preferable to make frames from galvanized metal profile waste.
The profile does not require additional processing, unlike wooden blocks.
We turn to the presentation of objects made from drywall scraps with our own hands.
1. Niches for heating radiators
To install heating radiators in the walls, it is necessary to make niches of a certain depth. If the wall is brick, then the cut-out niches are obtained with uneven edges and require subsequent plastering.
The use of pieces of plasterboard sheets made it possible to solve this problem without resorting to mixing solutions.
Fragments of the niche walls must be prepared from pieces of drywall: the back wall, sidewalls, the upper and lower sides.
For the back wall, you can use pieces of drywall, selected in size.
Parts are glued with a plaster mixture or gypsum with the addition of milk. It turns out to be a beautiful niche.
By the way, when leveling walls, sometimes thick layers of plaster are required. This can be avoided by using pieces of the remaining drywall sheets of the correct thickness.
Instead of applying plaster, pieces of drywall of the required thickness are glued. The thickness is selected experimentally.
2. Slopes for windows or doors
Having installed a new door or window, the owner is faced with the question of how to make slopes without resorting to plastering.
There is an exit.
Excellent slopes are obtained from scraps of drywall sheets.
Pieces of slopes of the required size are cut, glued with plasterboard mixture and fixed with a rule.
3. Covers on communications You can
close the sewer pipes, water supply or heating main with the help of casings made from the remaining pieces of drywall.
A frame is made from the remains of the profile around the pipe; it is envisaged to install an inspection hatch. Sheathe the resulting structure with pieces of the remaining drywall.
Everything is done simply. The profile is attached to the wall parallel to the pipes using dowel-nails. Jumpers are attached to the profile perpendicularly. It turns out a profile frame.
By the way, the jumpers are fastened with self-tapping screws, popularly called "seed" or rivets.
Pieces of drywall cut to size are attached to the frame with self-tapping screws, screwed in strictly at right angles, with 1 mm deep caps.
4. Hinged shelf
If you have pieces of the ceiling profile left, they will come in handy when making a hinged shelf.
A frame is assembled from pieces of the ceiling profile, fixed to the wall with anchor bolts. The frame is closed from above with the remains of drywall sheets.
Perforated corners must be installed on the corners.
The resulting structure must be putty, cleaned and painted or pasted over.
5. Coffee table
An excellent coffee table can easily be made from leftover drywall scraps.
You will need wooden blocks, bars.
Having made a solid frame from the remains of the profile, sheathe it with the remains of drywall, putty, clean with sandpaper. The resulting structure can be pasted over with textured paper or painted.
6. Cabinet under the bath
The space under the bath can be converted into a storage space for toiletries. But how to do it can be seen from the attached photo.
If the bathtub is already installed, then the frame is mounted from the profile around the bathtub perimeter.
The extreme niches are closed with drywall scraps, in the center a door is made of the same material. Here are more detailed instructions for making a screen under the bathroom.
But what can be done from a drywall profile with your own hands
7. Greenhouse
The best application of the profile is to assemble the greenhouse frame. Its sizes can be any. The waste will make the frame of a small greenhouse for planting early vegetables.
The frame is assembled on self-tapping screws or with rivets. During installation, the lower part of the frame should be supported by a stone or wood platform, excluding contact with the ground.
From above, the greenhouse is covered with plastic wrap or polycarbonate sheets.
8. Animal feeders
By the way, the profile can be used to make excellent feeders for quails, chickens, rabbits, nutria, hamsters, parrots.
Since the cross-section is in the form of a T-bar, cutting off the edges and curving the sides makes excellent feeders.
Conclusion: never throw away the leftover materials, they can be used to make various useful things.
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