Summary: Learn how to fix plasterboard to a stud wall, fit the plasterboard, fill the joints, fill the joints for tapered-edge board, fill the joints for straight-edge board and cut the plasterboard.
Plasterboard is fixed to timber or metal stud walls. The sides of plasterboard will be different colours: usually pale grey or ivory on one side and a darker grey or brown on the reverse. When fixing plasterboard it is the lighter side that faces into the room, the darker side may carry the manufacturer’s name or logo.