Is this how you hang drywall?

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Thing is this customer ordered 30 sheets extra

She says she’s going put peal and stick stuff on the walls so she does not have to finish the drywall, so she says.

I did drywall for 15 years, and you must finish it to get stuff to stick because it will not be flat. Going to look horrible.


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hbiss said:
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.

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I did some PLC programming once for a small company that rebuilt industrial furnaces.

When they tore the old equipment apart, they saved the wire and put it in a barrel.

They used the wire from the barrel to wire up the "new" control panels. They generally did not care what color or size of wire they used as long as it worked.

BTW, the guy that owned the company was a P.E.
 
I worked on a house like that a while back, the home owner got two bids to finish the drywall and do the trim and doors from two contractors.
One bid was twice what the other bid was. When he asked why the hi bidder was so expensive they said "well its going to take X amount of hours and coats a mud to patch all that".
Then he hired the low bid guys, who showed up while I was there, 5 guys came in and just started demoing the drywall!
I am a like wait did you talk to the homeowner? your supposed to be plastering ? Not demo !
They threw all the rock in one truck, and unloaded new 12 foot sheets from the other, re-hung the rock, plastered it and left later that day.
EDIT: and the cuts around my boxes were purrfect.
 
tortuga said:
I worked on a house like that a while back, the home owner got two bids to finish the drywall and do the trim and doors from two contractors.
One bid was twice what the other bid was. When he asked why the hi bidder was so expensive they said "well its going to take X amount of hours and coats a mud to patch all that".
Then he hired the low bid guys, who showed up while I was there, 5 guys came in and just started demoing the drywall!
I am a like wait did you talk to the homeowner? your supposed to be plastering ? Not demo !
They threw all the rock in one truck, and unloaded new 12 foot sheets from the other, re-hung the rock, plastered it and left later that day.
EDIT: and the cuts around my boxes were purrfect.
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I can imagine your angst, like you were caught in one of those "contractor demolished the wrong house" stories.

That was good out-of-the-box thinking by the low bidder. Kudos to him.
 
petersonra said:
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.
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When I started out as an alarm tech, my boss made it very clear; "wire is cheap, labor is expensive". That's why my company doesn't buy FPL or FPLR. You'd have to run 1000' of FPLR vs FPLP to make up the difference in cost of 1 hour of labor.
 
tortuga said:
I worked on a house like that a while back, the home owner got two bids to finish the drywall and do the trim and doors from two contractors.
One bid was twice what the other bid was. When he asked why the hi bidder was so expensive they said "well its going to take X amount of hours and coats a mud to patch all that".
Then he hired the low bid guys, who showed up while I was there, 5 guys came in and just started demoing the drywall!
I am a like wait did you talk to the homeowner? your supposed to be plastering ? Not demo !
They threw all the rock in one truck, and unloaded new 12 foot sheets from the other, re-hung the rock, plastered it and left later that day.
EDIT: and the cuts around my boxes were purrfect.
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I’ve seen them put new rock over the junk - no demo required.
 
retirede said:
I’ve seen them put new rock over the junk - no demo required.
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Then all the boxes for switches, receptacles and lights recessed to far. Adding extension on everything is a pain. I've seen a lot of that, get a call from a homeowner when someone does that and doesn't add the extensions and they want to know why all the covers are breaking or receptacle pushed back into wall.
 
McLintock said:
She furred out the wall 1 1/2” all the holes were way to big and not square at all


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Thats the worst, I tell the wall finishers code requires the boxes to be 'mudded in', I wont start a trim out until then.
 
tortuga said:
Thats the worst, I tell the wall finishers code requires the boxes to be 'mudded in', I wont start a trim out until then.
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Yeah I like it finished, but she really wanted the devices in and I wanted to be done with this job


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McLintock said:
Yeah I like it finished, but she really wanted the devices in and I wanted to be done with this job


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Wait until she calls you back and says she can’t get the outlets to accept plugs because they are all full of mud…
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Frank DuVal said:
Are Popcorn Ceilings or Skip Trowel jobs common in your area? Both cover multitudes of sins.... :rolleyes:
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Texture doesn't necessarily cover bad taping jobs. May help out but you can usually still see the bad taping when all is done, especially a long seam with some sort of ridge the full length or "over sanding" a joint made over the tapered factory edges, will show a shallow depression full length of that joint even after textured.
 
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