Funny: drywall/construction stories.

Darren@Partners

Problem was I did pay....about 7 per hour. Still makes me giggle now.

chasleem

wow theses are good.
OK I don't know how so much stupideness can come out of 1 person but these stories were all from 1 person. one of my buddies told me about this one. My buddy and this other hanger was trying to hang a ceiling, well my friend is a finsher not a hanger but he tried. Ne way the other guy who had been hanging for 3 years, told him that "in theory" 4 nails on each side shoud hold the sheetrock. Well he procedes to start banging on it and my friend told me that the sheet came down and hit the other guy on the head and made his neck go sideways lol.
I'll have to think of some more and keep you posted lol.

rckslash2010

Wanna hear funny? Before I leave the house that were finishing tomarro, I'm gonna turn every screw half way through the rock on one of the highest sheets on the vaulted cieling. When the moisture of the mud that the taper shoots on there for the knockdown soaks threw the sheet, and into the paper on the back side, it's all going to let go, right on his head, just as he finishes wipeing it down. I wish I could see the look on his face right before that sheet gives him a black eye. Maybe I'll set up a camera somewhere. To bad I'll be working 200 miles away.

R.E. Plaster

Here's one we had a labor who had what we'll call a drinking problem and needless to say the gas this guy had was fierce. Well one day he was letting them rip and we had to make him scrape floors in the other part of the house ,but he would came back to were we were working to share thinking it was funny so while laughing he had let another rip so he decided to push it out , but the jike was on him when his laughing stoped and he got a horrified look on his face becaused he craaaapped his pants biiigg time. We were miles from anywhere one guy was outside hosing him off because he rode with him

R.E. Plaster

one day we were doing smooth plaster, when you do this we use squirt bottles with water to spray on the walls to trowel the material. Well there was one guy who thought it was funny to srqirt guys in the crotch area, So to get back it was a warmer day in december and we had a lot of snow so we had our laborer go and make a big snowball about the saize of a basketball and then we put it in his drivers seat of his car, again it was a warm day so when he went to go home that snowball meltedto about the size of a baseball, he opened his car door found the snowball and was like very funny then he plopped down in his seat he got soaked. He was mad we all thought it was histarical, or maybe you just had to be there

rockdaddy

i used to take the hiltigun and shoot their boxes to the floor.....
sawdust in their sandwiches when the lunchbuckets are left out.....
leave them sleeping on a stack of rock after promising to wake them up.....They usually got woke up by the super.

A+ Texture LLC

Man dude, you musta never heard the term "saftey first".

Darren@Partners

Yeah, when I first read that post, I wanted to go off. I've resisted til now. What a di(#head. I doubt if the sheet really gave way, but if it did, your deserve whatever a$$beating you get.

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A+ Texture LLC

I'm gonna just assume it was a joke. A terrible, terrible joke. But yes, still funny. But only if it was a joke, a terrible, terrible joke.

Custom Drywall Svc.

yea, i really do hope this is a joke.

im actually lil shocked........

has to be a joke, haha.

rabb

not a good joke someone could DIE

rckslash2010

Do you think that there's actually someone out there that would do such a thing? It was just a thought guys, that's it. It's funny that it took so long for anybody to say anything.

JoeMudder

I don't mean to sound arrogant or boring, but this just isn't funny to me.

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JoeMudder

I heard that one somewhere. When I start hearing it too much I wonder, did this just get around a lot because it's so clever, or was it just a good story? Maybe both eh?

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Darren@Partners

I understand that his step-dad taught him this particular trick when he taught him the trade some thirty-five years ago. So I'm thinking it has been around awhile. Another threatened, but never utilized practice was to back up in the yard and lasso the chimney, tie off to the truck bumper, and ask again for the check one last time. This one too, I'm sure has made the rounds with masons all over the country.

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JoeMudder

I worked for a roofer when I was younger that had trouble collecting his money and so he told the home owner he was going to come and tear all the roofing off since it still belonged to him. It's actually illegal to go pulling a chimney down or tearing your roofing off the house, but if it works and you can get away with it you have to try something. There are people out there who will try to get away with anything.

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Darren@Partners

Yep, once installed, materials cannot be legally removed or vandalized by a contractor. Deadbeats, like all other criminals, seem to have way more rights than the rest of the law-abiding citizenry.

I was once issued a worthless check by a bank VP (happened to be my former loan officer). Got a cashiers check after throwing a bit of $#it-fit in his lobby during business hours. Almost got escorted out by a rent-a-cop, the slime-bag never come down to face me himself, but I got paid. I think it eventually cost him his job.

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Custom Drywall Svc.

I agree ive heard this a lil 'too much' as well to the point wheres its just suspicous hahah.....where its now just an urban legend or myth.

good idea nonetheless!

rebel20

Geez, thought I'd share this today as the guys on the job got a laugh,
Man don't know where my head was today as wackt the f++king sh** out of my finger today. Man its throbbin. The guy's got a good laugh as I was cussing my hammer out all though it wasn' the hammers fault.

Gotta go get me a cold beer to wrap my finger around.

Darren@Partners

Wise old carpenter, after watching me tenderize my thumb my new framing hammer, tells me, "Just pretend that's yer johnson instead of yer thumb, you'll quit hittin' it."

It did lessen the frequency, but I've still splattered mine a few times since. But it's always gotten a laugh when I tell that to the rookies.

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