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close to retiring. that was in early and mid ninety. they simply did not go to work to shot the breeze and joke around. they had a system nailed down. when they called out measurements you never heard the cutter keep asking what direction is than? they measured every room/bathroom in the same order every time. they did not have to measure every direction on every bathtub in an apartment because 100 bathtubs in a 100 unit building are all the same. they only called out if something changed.
Was the work perfect? no. there was a bit of prefill to do, but these were volume units. they could slow down and do a nice when needed. The opposite end of the scale; Once watched a 'slow' crew for a while. their boss spent half a day with them when just hired. three guys hung a 4x4 foot piece on a short wall top. two guys held the sheet up until the third guy finished, yes finished putting all the screws in. If you under stand the work and have a system then you know the sheet will stay up with one or two nails in in it and the other two guys should have been measuring the next wall.
yes per man per day. used to get crappy quad two and three story town homes. little rooms of 10-6 long walls with 12 foot sheets stocked in them taking up the whole floor at criss crossing angles. Every sheet needing cutting. double lid every where. they stocked 5 x floor. 1000 feet of floor took 5000 feet of rock. the units stocked with about 120 sheets per unit. four guys hung put i a long day, one guy came back the next day to finish screwing off garages, odds and ends etc. he finished before noon. those were crappy units.
Was the work perfect? no. there was a bit of prefill to do, but these were volume units. they could slow down and do a nice when needed. The opposite end of the scale; Once watched a 'slow' crew for a while. their boss spent half a day with them when just hired. three guys hung a 4x4 foot piece on a short wall top. two guys held the sheet up until the third guy finished, yes finished putting all the screws in. If you under stand the work and have a system then you know the sheet will stay up with one or two nails in in it and the other two guys should have been measuring the next wall.
yes per man per day. used to get crappy quad two and three story town homes. little rooms of 10-6 long walls with 12 foot sheets stocked in them taking up the whole floor at criss crossing angles. Every sheet needing cutting. double lid every where. they stocked 5 x floor. 1000 feet of floor took 5000 feet of rock. the units stocked with about 120 sheets per unit. four guys hung put i a long day, one guy came back the next day to finish screwing off garages, odds and ends etc. he finished before noon. those were crappy units.
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