How Many Sheets Per Day

florida drywall

If you are only making $50.00 a day and hanging for $3.00 a sheet that’s only 16.66 sheets per day right? While $3.00 a sheet is a bit low. 16.66 sheets a day is not only low but sad. I would say try to work a little harder and find a better paying project.

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drywallmike08

our average 3 man crew is .09 per foot . that brings me to the next question what do you pay your spray guy cuz i'm willing to relocate

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moore

One man . 40 sheets ..

Brian S

Is that with all the boards loaded in? and just walls or ceilings as well?

My average was about 35 a day screwboarding and slighty less dabbing
most I ever done screwboarding was 58, and I had to get them in from outside and up the stairs (8 x 4 1/2" board)

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gazman

We just hung a steel framed home. 120 sheets all 6m long plus wet areas a total of 1025m2 (11033 square feet). All glued. 20 hours (two days)for three men.

SlimPickins

All my jobs lately have been the kind where I hang 9-10 12 footers a day (with lots of tricky details)....the kind where you need to shoot a line laser to develop a frame of reference because the floor is sloped 2 inches in 12 ft, and the ceilings are sloped the other direction and only occasionally is something plumb. Good times!

Checkers

37, 4'X12's in 4 hours by myself.
Half screwed off, 14 5/8" on lid, the rest 1/2" on walls.

I couldn't believe it.

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silverstilts

I am the spray man wouldn't pay anyone to do the gravy job, I love to spray and could do it everyday.

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moore

OK ..I once hung 42 sheets In a long day.. It was a store front,,all walls 54x12s @ 4x12s 14' walls .The next day even my lift was sore..I normally average 25-30 4x12s a day with the lift. I pre-cut,,,have never used a roto-zip ..Anything over 60 boards I sub it out ..IF I have the time me and tuco will hang the small stuff. All are jobs are staged brian. Once In a great while a h/o will have it laid in the floor I hate that.And I charge for It.

P.A. ROCKER

Back in the days when ceilings were 8' I used to get a solid 45 4x12 avarage no problem. Many days over 50 and maxing out at 65. Bad days low 30's. Now the standard home is what used to be a custom. Ain't hanging much these days (always taping) avarages are most likely around 35. The earning potential hasn't changed over the years. The style is new but the pays the same as it was so long ago.

moore

ain't that the truth ... All those can lights are free work to cut around and god forbid they break on a seam.. I miss the days when h/o had no rights..

2buckcanuck

Just a simple break down here, rough guesstament , easy way to get a approximate count..... Like, you can look at a pile of drywall, and there's x amount of drywall in the pile, and you remember these 1st 4 numbers.......

21 twelves is a thousand sq (1008)
25 tens is a thousand sq ft (1000)
28 nines is a thousand sq ft (1008)
31 eights is a thousand sq ft (992)

Back in the day, when the houses were more easy, what I call 1960's houses, One floor, basement not finished. You would step into the house, living room in front, kitchen to the back, 2 or 3 bedrooms down a hallway, with one bathroom. Everyone knows what type of house I mean.

They could be 4,000 sq ft and up, If a 2 man crew got one of those places done in one day, that was a damn good show. And not a lot of guys did, but the really good ones could. That was the magic number we were told to gun for when I started boarding ,5000 sq ft. We made 10 cents a sq, so if you did hit that number, that was $250 for each guy, good money back in the day. (installing different sized sheets)

But even then as I was boarding, the houses were changing, Lots of back splits with the 7'-6" up stairs. gable roofs became cottage style (change in truss direction). Way more 2 story houses were being built, sky lights and cathedrals started to come into play.......... Guess what I'm trying to say is,, I don't think you can put a number on it no more.

The one trend I'm seeing, is no more 2 man drywall crews. ( where I work at least) there's always 3 or more guys in a crew, while the taping crews are becoming one man shows.

So I don't know, the generation of drywallers before me, would brag that they could smoke a shack off in one day, and that we sucked, because we couldn't. But the generation of guys drywalling now, I feel sorry for some of them. Some of these houses are so wicked these days

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chris

have you tried rotozippers

moore

That's funny Slim..You should have went with one of them thar dremels..

SlimPickins

Why would I need a zipper that undoes itself automatically? What if it started pulling itself up too soon??

SlimPickins

I was actually working a commercial job where the owner's stepson showed up to start working with us (in designer jeans). On day 2 he showed up with a dremel so he wouldn't have to keep walking 500+ ft. to borrow a router. So then he kept walking back to ask if he could borrow "drill bits" for the "electrical holes" I think day 4 was his last day.....those guys were brutal to the poor kid.

Zendik

My first exposure to top notch supervision came when I was hanging in Honolulu at Nauru Tower.
http://www.naurutower.com/

Big Jim and Stanley Joesph, both very large Hawaiians were the drywall superintendents and foreman that were running the job.
They worked out a production rate which were 40 sheets, 5/8 X 8'. Gravy really.. They told us hang 40 go home with 8 hours. We were leaving at 12-1pm everyday. Jim also allowed us to count whatever whatever sheets we hung over on Thursday towards our Friday count. I was leaving with 8 and my check every Friday at 10am.
In Hawaii, hanging in high rise condos it was every man for himself, no partners.
Now that count is 60 sheets for one guy.
The hardest and most sheets I ever hung was in a large commercial space hanging lids a few years back. My partner and I hung 80 5/8 12' sheets that day while both of us were in our 40s..
Still hurts.