Is this how you hang drywall?

[McLintock]

A customer of mine, who as caused many headaches, called and said she was ready for me to finish. I showed up and the walls were furred out two inches on me and the drywall was not finished at all, but she wanted me to still put devices in. So I put them in, after I cut down boxes to make extensions, mainly because she already paid in full beforehand, which is another long story. But look at the drywall

The rest of the place was like the ceiling.

This is 300 sq foot “dwelling”


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[Buck Parrish]

You must be in Indiana. That's fancy work.

 

[Little Bill]

Home owner to paper boy..................How would you like to earn some money that will be more than what you make delivering papers?
Paper Boy................Sure, what do I have to do?
HO........................Just put this drywall up in my new house
Paper boy..............I've never done that
HO......................I'll pay you $15 an hour
Paper boy........When do I start?

 

[RCC1]

Sheetrock is HEAVY. If you divide the sheet into very small pieces (like 1000) the weight is a lot more manageable.

 

[Dennis Alwon]

He'll need a extra bucket of mud for that job and it will never look good. I saw a guy do the same exact thing but it was in a shed... I can't imagine looking at that when it is done. Maybe he will plaster the entire wall.

 

[ptonsparky]

It will look good from here, eventually, maybe.

 

[EC Dan]

Looks like an efficient use of scrap from other jobs. Waste not, want not.

 

[LarryFine]

That's ridiculous! If I had to finish that, I'd want to strangle someone!

You want to use as few pieces as possible, like this, not scrap pieces:

 

[ritelec]

Don’t laugh. We’ll be doing that with romex soon.

 

[4x4dually]

They are gonna need to install mud with a scoop shovel to cover that mess.

 

[marmathsen]

That's painful to look at

Rob G

 

[petersonra]

There are a lot of drywall guys who would do something like that to save buying another sheet of drywall. making it look decent with all those pieces is going to be a lot of effort but some people think their time is free and drywall costs money.

 

[LarryFine]

There are a lot of drywall guys who would do something like that to save buying another sheet of drywall. making it look decent with all those pieces is going to be a lot of effort but some people think their time is free and drywall costs money.

Exactly. Finishing always takes longer than hanging for any given area.

 

[Hv&Lv]

WOW.

Those people will need a plasterer to do that close to right….

Drywall finisher and plasterer comparison is like night and day.

 

[petersonra]

Exactly. Finishing always takes longer than hanging for any given area.

A fair number of self employed people see their time as free though. An extra couple of hours of work for them is worth saving on the cost of drywall.

We have a vp who used to have a guy in our shop make copper ground bars to put in panels instead of just buying a ground bus for $1. At one point I figured with all the drilling and tapping it was about a twenty dollar item, but I guess he figured the labor was free.

 

[EC Dan]

A fair number of self employed people see their time as free though. An extra couple of hours of work for them is worth saving on the cost of drywall.

We have a vp who used to have a guy in our shop make copper ground bars to put in panels instead of just buying a ground bus for $1. At one point I figured with all the drilling and tapping it was about a twenty dollar item, but I guess he figured the labor was free.

This also goes for salaried employees. You're already paying them right? What's a couple extra hours of work? Of course they are expected to work those extra hours on top of the 40 hours... It's crazy the lack of consideration of opportunity cost for salaried employees.

 

[Frank DuVal]

Are Popcorn Ceilings or Skip Trowel jobs common in your area? Both cover multitudes of sins....

 

[Fred B]

I know a few rockers, and they've all told me money savings by using all those scraps is totally lost and actually costs more in the end in the time it takes to tape and mud all those seams. Not to even mention trying to make it look good.
I have taken a few of their larger scraps and keep to use to fill in cutouts for pulling wire on new receptacle or lights.

 

[James L]

Looks.....efficient.....

No, it's not.
Not at all

 

[hbiss]

An electrical contractor I used to work for did exactly that in his house. If I didn't know otherwise, I would say he collected the sheetrock scraps from job sites. You know, he's the guy I talked about who never threw anything away. He never bought new wire nuts, those ones from that 1920 house are perfectly good. He got an overweight citation once on his truck because of all the wire scraps and junk.

-Hal