I have a fair amount of experience with drywall but its all metal stud commercial framing and hanging. My contractor doing the basement just hung the rock and shit like this would never fly in my experience. I’m wondering if this is standard practice on the residential side or should I get on him?
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That is really sad work…
…I’d fire the goof.
Cheers
G
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Its a little late to get rid if him but i don’t mind getting on his ass if I have to.
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That wouldn’t fly on any jobsite I was on.
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Total bullshit
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Yeah same here
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I’ve had to get on him a couple times already and it is bullshit.
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Only like three of those screws are in the right place.
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Hard outta likes, but I’d be disliking the “quality” of that work. It may look like shit now, but just wait, in the future that’s going to cause real problems. It will be so much more difficult to fix once the wall is completely finished.
It’s like the old joke, yeah, he does quality work. All low quality.
Personally, I would have been too embarrassed to let a client see something like that had it been my job. And if I’d been an employee of a contractor, I’m confident I would have been fired asap.
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Yeah, thats pretty bad. There’s no way I’d accept that.
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Horrible you actually have to sink all those screws in. He did a piss Poor job.
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Yeah, naw…this is grounds for flaming that ass. Looks like absolute shite, and at that rate guy is gonna run out of box of screws every half sheet holy crap! 
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Would it make a difference if the sheets are glued? My general is saying the rock guy isn’t done but he knows he glued the sheets.
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I bet the Glue comment is bullshit.
There’s so much wrong in those pics. Looks like he missed the studs and needed to “catch” both boards by screwing inside the cut…
The cuts were done by eye, no t-square. look how wavy the one is.
You don’t join a sheet directly over another sheet, you stagger them.
The labor is unskilled and getting paid piece work. Contractor is hoping his finisher can make it all go away.
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The problem is the surface will have be taped and coumpounded. All those horribly aligned screw-holes (and, to lesser degree, the big gaps between sheets) are going to become messy to work with, and over time leads to more uneven drying/cracking spotty repairs.
I guess it depends on how important is the quality of finished product? Do you want this particular portion of wall to look clean and smooth or is that not a big concern? It will likely end up being a solid wall (especially if glued too), just not a very great looking one is all. If shooting to deliver a high-end finished product this would be completely unacceptable but for some (more utilitarian) scenarios could suffice I’m sure.
Also, if there will be another layer of sheetrock over this first one (and this is just being used as a substrate) then I expect the finish layer to be installed more cleanly.
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Those are all factory edges actually and i went and looked and there are empty liquid nail tubes out there.
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You cannot glue drywall… There is very low adhesion To the drywall paper side. To be honest, those sheets with crushed edges, nail holes on edges, etc. any glue of any type wouldn’t pass inspection… Cheers !!!
Edit - metal studs glued to drywall paper. That is an extremely low bond to metal or paper.
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I know they glued the rock when they built my house back in Nebraska so they do do it.
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Haha EXACTLY! Good luck to the finisher/painter…My impression is this carpenter is hoping to collect his payment and be way out of the picture by the time the space is turned over.
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The job is paid in draws so he isn’t getting another draw until I’m happy so no danger there.
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