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Great analogy. I tried to paint my own flat. Was a disaster.
by markatkinson 9y ago
Great analogy. I tried to paint my own flat. Was a disaster.
- WalterBright 9y agoI've tried to hang sheet rock. How hard could it be? It certainly looks easy. A disaster for me, too.
- moreless 9y agoFor us non-english speakers - "sheetrock" == drywall. I find I can do most such works better than (average) professionals, but it takes a lot of time to learn, prepare, execute (+ sometimes re-execute) and clean. It all depends on when you are satisfied with the result.
- Jaruzel 9y agoI recently came across 'sheetrock' as a term and had to google it... For UK natives it's actually three steps: "sheetrock" == drywall == Plasterboard
- logfromblammo 9y agoI have also heard it as "gypsum wallboard", which is certainly most descriptive. I'm not certain whether the water-resistant, mold-resistant variety typically hung behind tiles in bathrooms is ever referred to as "wetwall" or if they still call it "drywall". Nor am I aware of whether anyone calls the foil-backed, glass-reinforced, fire-resistant variety "firewall" instead of "drywall". I wouldn't be surprised if obsolete and inapplicable names still attach to items with the same function. If we ever move to polyethylene film panels sandwiched with phase-change material for our walls, it might still be called "plasterboard" somewhere.
- marme 9y agoit is called dry wall because it is installed while already dry. Unlike the old technique of lath and plaster where you build up the wall with multiple layers of wet plaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lath_and_plaster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lath_and_plaster
- fl0wenol 9y agoSheetrock is USG's trade name for a line of drywall products. Sounds like it's going the way of Kleenex, Band-aid, or Hoover.
- sokoloff 9y agoI'm a die-hard DIYer. I hire out drywall and blueboard/skimcoat work. Two guys who do that work everyday can do in a 6-hour day and ~$800 what it would take me two weeks and $300 in materials and their job looks 4x better than mine.
- at-fates-hands 9y agoI used to work for a home theater company. We were regularly working on newer mansion in the suburbs. If you ever want to see some dudes that work faster than fast, go hang out with a drywall crew. I remember showing up on a site, and the drywall guys had just started carting in a ton of drywall. By the time we left in the afternoon, they had cut, hung, taped and mudded over 3,000 sq feet of home, it was insane.
- juanmirocks 9y agoI feel you. I managed to paint my walls, but it took me much more time than expected and my flat was chaos for some weeks thereafter.