[Bill from Indy]

Your ONE SICK PUPPY !!!!!!!!!!! :thumbup:

here kitty kitty

just me....i know what you mean..i was doing a job for a drywall contractor (me a sub) and went in when hangers were still there....don't know if you guys use what is called eliminator track there, but 90% of my work here is...anyways...9ft walls...board laid down with rip on bottom...they had the eliminator all jacked up and no slap studs tied in...i called boss and said you need to get out here before i fire up the tube....first words out of his mouth was do what you can do....we budgeted the job cheap and i had to get cheap hangers....my immediate reply was you probably should call a cheap finisher then cause im not interested

contractors want to cut the job but don't want to cut there margin...they think subs will do it for less and make same $...this is the main reason I don't sub anymore besides the fact that our jobs are being "outsourced"

but on a side note and totally off topic, i see that 23 other states are jumping on board with arizona on the anti immigration bill and mine is one of them:jester:

 

[SlimPickins]

here kitty kitty

....don't know if you guys use what is called eliminator track there, but 90% of my work here is...anyways...9ft walls...board laid down with rip on bottom...

I've never heard of eliminator track...pretty neat stuff judging from the video I just watched. I was curious when I saw you say "board laid down with a rip at the bottom"....is there a specific reason why you don't use 54" rock and eliminate a joint? I could imagine that you'd have the hangers rip the recess off the top for easier finishing, but if you have to flat tape the top anyway it seems like it would be just as well to leave the recess. I'm certainly not being critical, just trying to become educated on a process that's foreign to me.

 

[2buckcanuck]

just guessing,but it could be just one of the reasons why he left the job,

 

[Bill from Indy]

just guessing,but it could be just one of the reasons why he left the job,

one..yes your right...all tenant finish is stand up...unless you get into demising walls or finishing to the deck...imagine a hallway of a doctors office....say it is 150ft long and has 10 doors down the hall with 10 exam rooms...the 150ft wall will be solid and the partition walls in the exam room...not technically partitions, but we will say for example, are tied into the hallway...dividing walls of office exam rooms...where the partition meets the hallway wall, that stud in corner that will make an inside corner is called a slapper or floater...you hang the board through the wall to where the 150ft wall is solid..push the stud against wall and screw it in...this ties the corner together and makes that corner solid...you can guess what it does when the corner stud isnt solid?....yep...you go to roll your angles that you just ran with the tube...all 40 of them (10 rooms x 4) and your tape sucks up in the corner and disappears...

I won't say it is impossible to finish this situation with the board laid down, but 99% of the time it is jacked

you cannot hang the board tight to the track..you get it too tight and it pushes up on the grid..i'll let you imagine what this looks like with standard tile, let alone reveal...

 

[SlimPickins]

Out here we call the angle studs that fasten after the first wall is hung "slammers", and that's just plain messed up that none of them were hit...I feel your pain.

 

[McDusty]

i've taped on 3 different continents in 3 very different climates, materials, building practices... i've yet to come across a room that is framed perfectly square.

 

[Mudstar]

i've taped on 3 different continents in 3 very different climates, materials, building practices... i've yet to come across a room that is framed perfectly square.

Is that your excuse?

 

[McDusty]

excuse? not sure, but it's the reason that an 8 & 10 are to small.

 

[Mudstar]

excuse? not sure, but it's the reason that an 8 & 10 are to small.

Sounds like your method using the 8 and 10 are not doing the job for you.

I could tell you that you might be forgetting something but you might get offended.

The best way to avoid a poor out come is to do what it takes to make the walls flat. That could be 2 coats in some areas and 4 coats in others.

Also running boxes strait down the joints does not always work.

ask 2buck he knows.

JS

 

[McDusty]

i don't even own an 8". it would be the most useless tool in my box, i'm pointing out the fact that an 8" and 10" are to small.

and you run a flat down the middle unless there is a high side. then you run it as far away from the high side as possible while still covering the shoulder of said high side.

 

[SlimPickins]

The best way to avoid a poor out come is to do what it takes to make the walls flat.

JS

:thumbup: Yeah, that sounds about right.

 

[2buckcanuck]

Sounds like your method using the 8 and 10 are not doing the job for you.

I could tell you that you might be forgetting something but you might get offended.

The best way to avoid a poor out come is to do what it takes to make the walls flat. That could be 2 coats in some areas and 4 coats in others.

Also running boxes strait down the joints does not always work.

ask 2buck he knows.

JS

well thank you mudstar:thumbup:I think:whistling2:
should see this dumb little basement were doing,looks like a drunk ran the boxes,thats how bad the joints are.and of coarse it painted ceilings.out comes the hand tools

 

[JustMe]

should see this dumb little basement were doing,looks like a drunk ran the boxes,thats how bad the joints are.and of coarse it painted ceilings.out comes the hand tools

I'll trade you. You should see all the high/low spots the flats of a large 11' ceiling I'm doing in a new commercial building has. And they want it and everything else ready for paint by Friday. And the 2 other tapers who were supposed to show up there today got diverted. So it's justme. :blink:

 

[2buckcanuck]

I'll trade you. You should see all the high/low spots the flats of a large 11' ceiling I'm doing in a new commercial building has. And they want it and everything else ready for paint by Friday. And the 2 other tapers who were supposed to show up there today got diverted. So it's justme. :blink:

same here,kid missed yesterday,hugged toilet today puking all day,think he had molson flu (Budweiser flu for yanks,foster flu kiwi's) told him to take tomorrow off,it's just a basement though so.nice change of pace,,tired
it's nice and peaceful with out him there,get to read news paper in full,drink lots of coffee,listen to talk radio all day,no music blasting full blast all day
dear god I'm getting old

 

[cazna]

same here,kid missed yesterday,hugged toilet today puking all day,think he had molson flu (Budweiser flu for yanks,foster flu kiwi's) told him to take tomorrow off,it's just a basement though so.nice change of pace,,tired
it's nice and peaceful with out him there,get to read news paper in full,drink lots of coffee,listen to talk radio all day,no music blasting full blast all day
dear god I'm getting old

No, Thats foster flu for ozzies, Monteiths, DB, or speights for kiwis :thumbup:

 

[SlimPickins]

No, Thats foster flu for ozzies, Monteiths, DB, or speights for kiwis :thumbup:

We call it Brown Bottle Flu...sounds exotic and dangerous doesn't it?

 

[jeffqc]

[where i can buy joest paper disk for porter cable sander in canada

 

[betterdrywall]

I think this is the last home me and Charlie worked on together from start to finish. Here's rotten azz charlie himself..

 

[moore]

here's a pic from today,floors look clean?????

floors are clean, but have you put the last coat on yet? that butt joint looks a little rough.:whistling2:

 

[mudslingr]

Here's my favourite. One sheet from start to finish if I don't snag and tear it.:yes: