When you’re installing walls (drywall) paneling you will have to know how to measure, put holes in it in the right place, and how to attach it.
Measure accurately the frame to which you want to attach the drywall panel. You will have to measure accurately and mark off the panel of drywall to correspond to the studs you are going to be attaching the drywall to.
Measuring is the most important part of laying out where you are going to be nailing or screwing the drywall onto the frame.
I always measure from the top left-hand corner across. Make sure that your studs are all equal distance apart from each other which should be 16 inches from the same point to the same point on your frame. Then check diagonally from top left to bottom right the length of the diagonal and check the other diagonal from bottom left and top right the two measurements should be the same. If they’re not then you have to push in one corner or the other to make both diagonals the same.
Now that your wooden frame is square and all your studs are square and equally spaced you can mark your drywall with a soft lead pencil (not a pen or marker because it will bleed through the paint after painting it). Going across the top of your drywall take a drywall Square and place the long arm of the T. directly over your pencil mark and draw lines directly down from these marks. This will give you the exact place the screws should be inserted.
