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re: How much of a pain is it to install sheetrock?

Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:02 am to
Posted by tigersownall
Thibodaux
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Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:02 am to
Floating sucks but after you do a 4000 square foot house it comes easy.
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
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Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:02 am to
Thanks. MY FIL has all the equipment. My FIL and my wife's uncle literally built the entire second floor of the house. However, this was when he was much younger. I just don't want to look like too much of an idiot in front of him.
Posted by CaptainsWafer
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Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:03 am to
Which OTers house did you hang this in?
Posted by MSTiger33
Member since Oct 2007
20447 posts
Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:04 am to
Only the poor ones
Posted by CaptainsWafer
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Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:05 am to
Right. It obviously wasn't mine. Maybe the guest house.
Posted by Ace Midnight
Between sanity and madness
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Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:08 am to
Hanging is fairly straight forward - it's floating and taping that are more labor intensive and difficult - akin to the difference between pouring and finishing concrete (although not as extreme a difference).

Posted by tigersownall
Thibodaux
Member since Sep 2011
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Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:21 am to
Ot rent house bro
Posted by mt1
LV
Member since Nov 2006
7208 posts
Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:40 am to
quote:

It's not hard doing the hanging. Floating is the hard part.
Posted by RBWilliams8
Member since Oct 2009
53419 posts
Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:41 am to
Price of cake but overhead work = you're gonna eat it...
Posted by skinny domino
sebr
Member since Feb 2007
14352 posts
Posted on 1/9/14 at 11:54 am to
quote:

Crap. We have to do part of the ceiling. FIL had an overflow in the second floor bathroom. Have to replace ceiling and at least one wall. Not sure what the damage is in the basement.

check out youtube - I believe there is a video on there that shows how to build a "T" that you walk under the sheetrock - it looked like out of about 3 or 4 2x4's.
Posted by Triggerr
Member since Jul 2013
1904 posts
Posted on 1/9/14 at 9:52 pm to
I pay $.25/Sf for hang, finish, texture. So I wouldn't consider touching the 1st sheet
Posted by Napoleon
Kenna
Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 1/9/14 at 9:54 pm to
easy, it's mud work that is a pain
Posted by Will Cover
St. Louis, MO
Member since Mar 2007
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Posted on 1/9/14 at 10:08 pm to
Use lipstick to mark for outlets and switches. Will give you perfect measurement for cut outs.
Posted by MotorBoater
Hammond
Member since Sep 2010
1677 posts
Posted on 1/9/14 at 10:14 pm to
Do you even Mexican bro?!
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