The phone rang…
“Please…Ya got to come over and see this” said the neighbor…
So I ambled on over. He lives a few street from me. He’s having a small addition put on. One room was just drywalled, the room measures about 17’6″ by 11’4″. Piece of cake. He ordered 10 sheets of 12′ drywall and hired a rocking crew to do the work for him. Should be a near-perfect rock job with minimal taping and minimal waste, right?
I have no idea how, I have no idea why…but those 10 sheets of wallboard were cut up into 29 separate pieces and then hung and screwed.
“Is this right?” asks the neighbor.
“Nope” sez I.
We called the drywall sub and he came over. He saw the walls and screamed “PIECES! I’M GONNA KILL PIECES!”
“Pieces” is the nickname given to one of his workers who may not have a job for much longer. Apparently, he’s not supposed to get close to any sheet goods, whether it be drywall, plywood, or panels of RFBI. Pieces is apparently quite fond of, and very good at, jigsaw puzzles.
Anyhow, the neighbor broke out a few beverages and we hung out for a while unscrewing and taking down the mis-hung drywall. What little scrap there was, we found that Pieces buried it in a stud bay. New wallboard is being delivered tomorrow.
Mongo
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LOL. Now I think I have heard it all. :)
Wood Hoon
That drywall sub is gooing to be eating the addtional materials and labor....right?
I think the phrase "Just because you can doesn't mean you should" applies here.
Jigsaw puzzels.........please.
SJ
"That drywall sub is gooing to be eating the addtional materials and labor....right?"
Steve, the drywall sub offered to eat the entire job...new materials and labor. The homeowner told him that as long as the room got re-rocked today he wouldn't lose any time on his construction schedule and he'd pay the tab originally agreed upon. Yes, the sub is going to pay for the new materials.
They're couple of good guys.
Makes you wonder how Pieces managed to work beyond his first day! -Ken
A guy i do a bit of work for told me this story the other day.
A small job was done and drywalled. The owner was a bit of a fussy pedantic sort, but so far the thing had gone smoothly. The plasterer went round to do his bit and, well, pretty much went ballistic. Boss went round to see what all the fuss was about.
The standard way of fixing drywall here is use a handful of screws per sheet cos the glue will hold it once it has set.
The owner wasnt entirely satisfied with the look of that, so he went out and bought a heap of screws and put them in himself......................all 14,000 of them.
the drywall looked like the moon. the plastering job cost him a bundle. :)
Wood Hoon
This thread sounds like good material for the "Great Moments in Building History" Darkworksite4: When the job is to small for everyone else, Its just about right for me"
All I have to say is that you are LUCKY that I was not drinking coffee when I read this.
With the new software you would have had coffe driping all over your monitor.
That is funny!
Made me reminisce about a guy who worked for me nicknamed "patches".
Sounds like they could be brothers.
Tom
I loved this thread....
Am now checking Fonts out Arial
Is nice.... now for a next line without new paragraph creation!!!! I did it... So much to learn...
Verdana is OK...Times... Oh the old times...Courier... as in Jime Courier...Tennis.And me the comic...I do like this papyrus stuff... hmmm
Lakeside... on the mountain...near the stream
Lakeside...On the mountain, near the stream,
aj
Builder of Fine Homes and Tennis Courts & Great Camps of the Adirondacks