How do they get 12, 14, 16′ sheets into a home? Who delivers it? Where is it bought other than the big boxes?
Say your doing a house, the back half is two stories. You cannot access the house with a truck from the back or sides, only from the street. The front yard is sloped/elevated and about 26 feet (street to front of home)
How do they get these huge sheets of drywall to the back half of the second story???? Or even into the back half of the house????
Just wondering I have been preplexed for most of my life on this thought 😉
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Some logistics take some thought. Whatever a good drywall supply boom truck can handle makes that part easier. I don't know from you description if it could get in close enough.
I've taken out whole window units and gone into the opening that way.
I've heard of folks cutting into a side wall, replacing the vinyl siding.
I've cut holes in between joists to pass them either up or down in tall ceiling'd victorians, sometimes up through to the attic.
Usually, you decide if it's easier to hang and tape 8 footers than do the destruction and reconstruction.
First thing you think of in a "we'd like to finish our basement" job is drywall. Some folks it doesn't dawn on them that these materials aren't foldable and some builders make it so it's easier to build the house than finish the basement.
And no matter how, they always have to be handled by hand after machine. Ugh.
You ever seen a 4-600 ft long pc of drywall? Take a tour of a drywall plant. Simply amazing.
Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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You ever seen a 4-600 ft long pc of drywall?
How do they get it out of the factory and what do they use it for?
I thought they are longer than that, doesn't it keep coming out of the machine and the knife keeps coming down?
Tom, you've got to see it to believe it. Hunt for a plant and go. The drywall starts as a pc of paper with the edges turned up. Thick batter type gypsum is poured onto that sheet. The top paper is applied and the edges beveled. It continues down the line as a continuous pc of sheetrock till it cools and solidifies enough to be cut into 32' long pcs. It's gone about 600 ft by now. After being cut into the 32's its flipped and sent back back from whence it came, passing through ovens until dry enough to be cut to size. You can get 32's but I have know idea who would want to. Now this was an older plant, new might be different.Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.
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Now I see how you get that 600'. I saw that on TV a long time ago, it was a continuous piece until it's cut so in theory you can get as long a piece as you want.
Same deal with making clay bricks, it takes 24 hours for the fresh clay to go through a conveyor belt in the oven.
Good Morning Everybody,
Another option to consider when placing sheetgoods through a precarious critical path is to take whole sheets only when necessary. I was just telling one of my guys yesterday to rough cut the sheets we needed and bring them up that way instead of killing his back trying to carry a dozen 10' sheets of 5/8 up the stairs. This seemed to him like a revelation. We needed only one piece about 8' long, and we carried it together.
If you have alot of, let's say, 4-5' sections for the ceiling angles in an attic, you might want to cut a load of shorts on the ground.
Another option is to order a load of mixed lengths. Perhaps some of your cuts are divisible into 10 ' sheets, and the rest can be done with 8's. Remember, they make 54" sheets too.
And in some cases, like attic kneewalls, you can cut them all to finished length on the ground. Sure makes clean up easier too.
Good Luck, Ricky
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Lots of times the only way is just to grit yer teeth, and carry the sheets in.
8s and sometimes 10s are usually carried by 1 guy; anything longer ( at least for me ) is 2 guys. But with that elevation change, I'd probably have 2 guys on the shorter one, too.
Years ago, when I was just starting out, we needed to get some 50 8's up to the third floor of this old house. This house was one of those with the high ceilings, and the landings halfway up each flight of stairs. We were going to be sheetrocking over all the old, cracked plaster ceilings.
We got the rock delivered somewhere around 9 AM, and my dad told me and my brother to carry them up, and that we could go home when we finished.
Well, it took us until mid afternoon to get those sheets upstairs, each one heavier than the last. I don't think we would have been able to lift a sheet over our heads by that point.
I guess what I'm trying to say is, don't worry about how that stuff gets into the house; if yer smart, you'll hire someone else to do it.
Do you and your brother still work cheap? HA
I'm thinkin at this point two guys would have to get on the roof closets to the street and accept the boards from a boom and feed them up/through the exterior framed walls b4 plywood/siding went on. And covered very well to keep moisure out.
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My brother got smart and got a job with Verizon: I'm still (occassionally) humpin' rock.
Any chance of leaving a few studs and sheathing out in one area? I've done that on a few jobs where access was difficult. I'd be very leary about bring the rock in before the house was pretty well dried in.
Hey Sail.
umm Myron talks a bit about that on his video.
Look in the phone book for a drywall company, distributor in your area. Most of them will sell to you for just a bit more than big box, and its part of their deal to hump the rock to the floors that you need it to be on. You just have to make a list or little signs where you want them to put which size pieces.
Of course, they will like you better if you have an opening inside or from an outer wall to pass to upper floors.
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I left a half sheet of plywood sheathing loose on one job for just that purpose. A little planning ahead make a big difference