How To - Make Your Own Drywall ButtBoards! Finish Drywall EASY with these!

Step-by-step guide on how to make your own drywall buttboards. We have been making these for years and in doing so, saved so much money purchasing premade boards. The savings in time finishing are incredible, and the finished product is far superior. Do you want flatter walls and ceilings? Use buttboards. Do you want a stronger butt joint? Use buttboards.
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[@andrewbrenner425]

Great video guys! Butt joints are always a challenge and I love this idea. Thanks a bunch!

[@miillersconstruction]

You'll never go back!

[@xxROEVYxx]

Same way we make them, I love it!! I put a lot more emphasis on landing the sheet in the center of the span so you get an even amount of leverage on each side on the studs, joist, furring strips, whatever your fastening to. There’s never too many screws!!!!

[@miillersconstruction]

Awesome man!!! We use them any time we can!

[@markkidd2436]

Thank you! Can’t get find these where I’m at. Great video!

[@cfomusic73]

Hey man thank you for the video. I almost was going to buy a case of butt boards but the price i was like no freaking way!

[@bwier]

Thank you!!

[@miillersconstruction]

Glad it helps! Thanks for checking out the video.

[@peteganze6416]

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[@CTRwannaB]

Do you still need to stagger the rock then? Also what size thickness OSs the plywood? Great work

[@miillersconstruction]

I still like to stagger it, but we've done quite a few that we did not stagger. We've done one that was around 40' long about 6 years ago in my personal house. Still looks great, no cracks. 7/16" thickness.

[@AscDrew]

So, if I’m understanding this method you are intentionally creating a slight recess to avoid the possibility of a hump at the joint, which would cause much more floating to get flush and level? Having a thin recess is a much smaller gap to fill in and leave the ceiling flat when you’re done?

[@miillersconstruction]

That's correct. So instead of having a hump from where you're adding joint compound to a butt joint, where you have to feather it out over a large span to make it look right, You've simply got a recess just like the other edges of the drywall that will accept joint compound. By doing it this way the butt joint is actually much stronger as well.

[@michaelwilliams7031]

If you wanted a deeper recess, can I cut my boards 6 inches wide . Set the blade at 3 in tall and 5° degree angle and the blade angled to the fence. Set the fence at 1/2 inch. Do you think that would work?

[@miillersconstruction]

It wouldn't even take that much. Set it to 3.5 degrees and you're going to get a significantly deeper recess.

[@YovielRodriguez]

Do this works on 5/8 drywall too?

[@miillersconstruction]

Yep. Just installed a ton of 5/8" rock using them.

[@notimportant3686]

damn, that IS a lot of screws... i wonder at what point it's so many that it's actually weakening the edge... you're already putting pressure on that area just by the fact that you're bowing the edge of the sheetrock i don't think i would personally take such chances

[@miillersconstruction]

I've been doing it this way for years, never an issue. Remember this is the way I do things and have had success doing so. Take it for what it is.

[@seephor]

Good way to same money. However, these put the drywall under tension and is more prone to cracking.

[@miillersconstruction]

I would strongly disagree with that statement.

[@fletchergiles878]

Butt joints sharing a stud are prone to cracking. Set a weight on a piece of drywall to force it to bend, take the weight off a day later and it won't go back to straight. The drywall relaxes and is not under tension. Contractors that use butt boards report far fewer call backs. And not cutting drywall to fall on a stud and letting them run wild saves time too.

[@bwier]

Thank you been wanting to make my own save money!!

[@miillersconstruction]

@@bwier glad it helped!

[@johnborton4522]

Having used self made butt boards for near 2 decades now, I can absolutely say this is incorrect. Much LESS cracking since the butt floats and isn't tied to a stud which may twist.

[@ryanleiker7018]

Can you make them out of 1/2in plywood ?I have scraps that I can use up

[@miillersconstruction]

I would think so. I have not tried it, but I dont see a problem with it.

[@RandiGardner-zb8jk]

First off great video but I find this unnecessary waste of materials OSB is expensive these days just break center of a stud! Plus breaking on a stud is a lot more durable in the long run!

[@miillersconstruction]

Actually buttboards are much stronger than breaking on a stud. Also at the time of filming this video OSB was $7 per sheet. Even at today's pricing your still saving so much in labor, it offsets the cost.

[@hmtrimworks7148]

If you’re on a new house, there’s more than enough scrap OSB, laying around to make enough butt boards with no material cost