Funny: drywall/construction stories.

Drywall1

Would like to hear some funny stories.

Like the day my scrapper walked into the house to start scrapping. He looked right at me and stepped into the stairwell going to the basement. He hit the steps, got up, walked outside (without saying a word) got in his truck and left. I think he needed to have a good cry by himself.

Or every time one of my guys needs to use the bucket in my trailer (if you know what I mean) I will tell one of the other guys to get me something out of the trailer. It works every dang time.

Or when on the really windy day my partner shut one of the guys in the trailer. He saw the door on the trailer flopping and ran out to shut it. He swares to this day he didn't hear the guy yelling in there. I guess he was in there for quite a while.

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Crazytaper

I'm sure you've done this before. Wait until the guy has to take a power dump in the outhouse. Wait 30 seconds after he's closed the door and is in the middle of grinding one out. Try to hit he back of the outhouse, preferrably on the back side close to his ear, with a large rock. Sure to scare the poop out of them.

1wallboardsman

I was working for a company once that had an unpopular super. One time he appeared on the job seeking a bucket of mud for some touchup in a homeowners condo. There was also a fella on the job that was well known for his habit of taking a dump in the closest 1/3rd bucket of mud.

So everyone except this poor super knew not to borrow any part buckets from this guy. After snagging just the amount of mud he needed from the wrong unit, the super proceeded to his appointment. Upon arriving, he opened the fresh steaming bucket right in the middle of the homeowners living room.

jdl

Drywall1

That is priceless! I think I could write a book on construction poop stories. Dont know if it would sell though.

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Crazytaper

I just finished a basement for a new remodel guy. When he first called me he asked me so many questions about morality that I began to wonder WTF? Just so happens that his last finisher crapped in a drywall bag, wrapped it up tight, tossed it back in an empty box and proceeded to throw it in the homeowners crawlspace. Lovely. I jokingly told him we like to wear diapers and crap on ourselves. He didn't laugh. He met me in person, loves my work and now understands me and my humor. Though I do recommend bringing a portable bladder to every basement job. Just stash it in your tool bucket.

butcherman

There are so many. Here's a good one i had a guy come to work in parachutte pants. It was winter so the heaters were going (propane salamanders). The guy was on stilts and decides to stradle the heater. His pants catch fire in the crotch. He did'nt realize it. We tried to tell him, but we were laughing so much we could'nt speak. It finally hits him and he starts pounding his nuts (double pain). Well from that day on he has'nt heard the end of it. At christmas time we sing ____________ nuts roasting on the heaters fire. I did'nt want to use his name so fill in the blank with any name you wish. I wish i was making this up but i'm not.

butcherman

Here's one more. I was doing a thirty foot high ceiling. I was on top of six stacks of scaffold. All of a sudden it starts shaking like an earthquake. I had full planks across the top so i drop to my knees to keep from going over. I scream STOP. My idiot helper just started climbing up the side with no warning and almost knocked me off. I yell at him and he says "what". I say just get the f**k out of here. He pushes off the scaffold and jumps to the ground and almost knocks me off again. I start screaming at him big time. THERE IS NO WAY I CAN BE ANYMORE PISSED OF THAN I WAS AT THAT MOMENT. I was wrong, he said to me " Don't be mad at me, it's not my fault you're stupid." I can't describe the rage i felt because i've never felt it before or after that. But i reminded the guy that story seven years later he said he remembered it and asked me why i did'nt kill him. I said to tell the truth i don't know. At least the lesson was learned.

Crazytaper

This is what I need to hear. Great stuff. Do you guys ever throw a hand full of screws in a guys pan full of mud when he sets it down? Or pour motor oil on the ground under their vehicle during a snowstorm. They crawl under there looking forever-getting soaked.

butcherman

No, but if we catch a guy taking a leak on a tree close to the house he becomes taget practice for a spackle fight. Unfortunately there is no defense for the victim but everyone else has fun. That's how we learned to hit things from a second floor window. The victims must think birds are crapping spackle.

butcherman

Here's one more, I had a guy on a 5' scaffold. From the other room you could see him from the knees down. One of my guys found a highhat cut out and threw it like a frisbee at his legs. He caught the guy off guard (he only had two planks on the top level). The guy on the scaffold loses his balance,throws his tools and could'nt find anything to grab. He falls off the scaffold, gets pissed off, punches the ground while swearing. Then stands up and hits his head on the planks. We ran out the room laughing. It wasn't his day. I know i'm not the only one with a story like this.

JCardoza

Ok here's one, a guy on my crew helped a mutual friend of ours remodel his house right before that friend got married. Well right before the wedding the friend askes another guy on my crew to watch the house and gives him the keys. Oops! So we all go to the wedding... Wave him off... He leaves town with the girl.... and a couple days later we... uh... I mean... someone visits his empty house masks off the floor in front of the main hallway and promptly frames a wall across totaly blocking the hall. we... I mean they, hang, hotset, match the texture and paint it... remove the masking and add baseboard.... Then set an end table against it. So then Bob gets home with his new bride in the early morning hours after a long drive and desperatly needing to use the restroom. Oh did I mention that both bathrooms were on the other side of that wall?? So the next day we get a call at work... "do you know who did that joke on Bob" Uh why? "cause he's mad! says they damaged the house and destroyed the new hardwood floor"! Now I know the floor was covered and the wall was built without ANY fastners being put into the existing house. and the exisiting wall had masking tape under ALL mud put on the wall. (a work of a genius if you ask me!) So I know the only way anything could have happened was if the guy that came back to paint it goofed or if Bob damaged something trying to get thru the wall... So I'm a little shaken but more than a little bit skeptical. Now my other guys are a mess... Bob won't answer his phone and we get word that her Dad who did the floor is real mad... Oh and I wouldn't drop by the house since her (mad) parents are at the house right now... (at the couple's house day after they get back?!?) Well finally we get by the house when no one is there and it was all just their way of getting revenge... house was fine... Oh and they had been crawling thru a small hole they had knocked into the bottom of the fake wall for a couple days! LOL

Brockster

Good one Cardoza!

select drywall

heres a few. When I was a hanger I did a side job where I needed mud. I had 2 buckets letf when the job was done and put them in the back of my truck. I was friends with the finisher in the house next door. It was Jan and the mud was rock hard. I got there before him and called to ask him where he was at. be there 5 he said. I opened every window in the house and turned the heat off. It was like 25 and windy that day. I then closed all the windows and set my frozen mud from my truck inside beside his. when he came I followed him in. I said man its cold. He said someone must have turned the heat off and turned to check the thermastat. I then grabbed my buckets from the stack and set them in front of him while saying your screwed its all frozen. He flipped going into a frenzy over who turned it off but never checking the rest of the mud. About that time the super pulls in and my buddy is headed for him mad as a hornet. I thought it was a good time to tell him before he jumped the super. I laughed so hard it wasnt funny. But he got me back. It was hot out and we hung together 2 hours from home all day. he let a water jug in his truck and it became very warm. on the way home I fell asleep and he poured it on my crotch. I awoke and figured I pee'd myself. He was just driving and looking straight ahead while I searched for a move to make that would not give my delema away. after a min he could no longer hold his laughter.

bob16

This happened way back in the Mid 70's

My drywall partner left Florida for home (Maryland).

Anyway him and his new partner get a job in Richmond, VA so they pack up the tools and head down there to make some money (about 170 miles away)

They get into town but they can't find the jobsite.

They keep riding around but nothing turns up.

Finally they break down and decide to call the bossman and find out where the hell they are suppose to go.

They tell him where they are and all they can hear is cursing on the other end of the phone.

"No you idiots. The job ain't in Richmond, Virginia. The job is on Richmond Ave in Washington DC"

cooper

That is funny, I'm going to have to keep that in my arsenal.

NH Drywall

Here's a classic I've used... We had a new guy hanging rock and he cut a sheet too short-- I grunted and groaned and snipped at him-- Told him to "Go get the sheetrock stretcher out of the truck" .... Poor guy spent 20 minutes looking for a "sheetrock stretcher" just to come back in feeling like the moron who cut the sheet too short then couldn't even find the sheetrock stretcher to fix it.... =)

evolve991

I started out in drywall working for a guy who was either drunk,getting drunk or still drunk from last night. His cousin came up to Maryland from Kentucky and started working with us. I didn't believe there could be a drunker person on the job than the boss BUT that all changed when I heard the boss screaming at his cousin. He had cut out every box he could find....FROM THE BACK SIDE!!!!!!

My brother and I teamed up with 2 brothers who did mostly framing and needed some work during a slowdown. The older brother never ceased quoting how the Union or OSHA or DuPont demanded safety. We were hanging a high garage and had 7 foot long scaffold so the older guy came up with the idea to scab onto the wall and run planks to it. I wasnt thrilled with the planks he found but grudgingly agreed just to get the job done,we were starting to regret teaming up......my brother and the younger guy had just flipped the sheet up and had it almost in place when the planks dropped...then the plywood ON the planks dropped....then both hangers.. followed by the 12 ft sheet of 5/8. The guys landed on thier feet with thier hands still spread and the sheet landed right back onto their fingers. It all happened in slow motion. I turned around to say something to the older brother but he wasn't there. We looked at the 10 foot 2by he used to scab on the wall and found he had used 2 12 penny nails to nail it on!!!!!!! He didn't have much to say after that.

We started a house and did most of the lids that day. We had noticed it was way short on 54" rock. That night there were some fierce storms and when we got to the house the next day all of the windows were gone. They were the tall rectangular crank-out type and were missing right off the frames. All the insulation was swirling around on the floor looking like yellow dust devils and the paper was still stapled on one side of the bays,blowing back and forth. A tornado had touched down just beyond the house and you could see its path down the road. It must have grazed the job. The guy we were subbing from showed up and we told him we were short on 54". He said the tornado must have took it!!!!!!!!! There was NO damage except for the missing windows and insulation so we have no idea how he came to that conclusion. Besides the fact that it was missing when we got there the day before!!!!!

rocker7969

Used to work with a guy who would empty out your tool bucket, screw it to the floor, then put all the tools back. You'd go to pick up your tools at the end of the day, and it would feel like it you tore your arm off..lol

Another guy used to put nails or staples in the edge of a stack of rock. You wouldn't notice them until you went to rip a sheet down and catch your finger on one. This one left some bloody rock at times. Guy got fired cuz he was such an asshole.

Had one guy on a commercial job who sweated like you wouldn't believe. One day he got caught taking the lid off of the job water cooler, so he could dunk his head into it to cool off. He got fired too. Glad I never drank out of the cooler on that job.

Had one taper working once on a commercial job who only did house work. Well, the forman told him to start mudding on this one wall, so he started prefilling here and there. When the forman came back a bit later to see what was taking him so long, he completely filled all the expansion joints full of mud. LOL

Al Taper

When you use some durabond or easysand put your extra on some plastic or on the bag. Than after it dry fully. Peel it off and put it on someone coat or sweatshirt.

butcherman

We use to cut out the bottom of tool buckets and put he tools back in. Never seen anyone get angry but the stupid looks are priceless.