mike0000
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Good luck!
Mike
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My Industrial Cabin Build
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747driver
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Good luck ! Let the chips fall your way...... Sometimes you just have to stop and put another set of eyes on the project ! I think you will pass !!
Kyle_in_Tex
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I hope everything is right, but almost all inspectors will find something, just so they make sure you know they have power.
airbiscuit
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When we sold our mother's 75+ year old house house after she passed, the buyer's property inspector found a couple of broken outlet covers and a disconnected rain gutter. My sisters freaked. I said it couldn't have gone better - they have to find something. $2.00 fixed the problems.
buckeyefarmer
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I always left an easy one for them to find, once they had something they stopped looking so hard. 
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WoodChuckDad
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I am a week or two behind in video editing. So I wont have my inspection video out for a while but I passed. He had two things he wanted me to change. One was a stud under a rafter. The load didn’t have continuous stud all the way up. It was about 6 inches to the side so I am just going to add another two studs to shore it up up. And the other was a nail plate.
Jefanna called and scheduled the drywall. They start in one week. Holy smokes. I am just blown away
Jefanna called and scheduled the drywall. They start in one week. Holy smokes. I am just blown away
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Wow, congratulations on a job well done! You both should be very proud of your accomplishments, to only have 2 minor issues that's amazing.
coldsteelva
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Bravo! Quite an accomplishment. You should be proud of yourselves. Just a quick reminder: make sure you take all those pre-drywall pictures so that you know exactly where every stud, PEX tube, power line, and DWV pipe is before hidden (hopefully forever) by the drywallers.
EddieWalker
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Congratulations!!!!
If you have never dealt with a crew hanging sheetrock, be sure you have a plan for clean up. Most crews will not clean up their mess.
Be sure that the cut out every outlet and switch box. Count them for every room before they start and then count them when they are done. It's common to have something covered up that can be a real pain to find later on.
Expect a massive mess when they texture the walls. Have everything covered in plastic, and put tarps over the plastic on the ground. Assume that they will NOT do a good job of doing this!!!!
If you are paying for each sheet, count how many you actually get delivered and how many are left over. Do not pay until they pick up the leftover sheets and they deduct the.cost of materials according to how many sheets they didnt use.
Be sure that they use 5/8s sheetrock on the ceilings. Half inch will sag on a ceiling over time.
Expect to have somebody with a criminal record in there at.some point. It's very common for felons to get a job doing this type of work. Dont leave anything of value out or in sight!!!
Be sure every sheet is mailed or screwed completely. With some crews, one guy will cut and install the sheetrock, a other will install all the screws or nails. I've seen several closets and small rooms that only had 4 nails in the sheet after they have been long gone.
Screws are better then nails, but nails are faster to get a sheet up, so it's common to have both in a sheet.
Have a roll of blue tape to mark issues. They hate this and might pull it down and pretend it wasnt there. Be sure to count how many places you marked with blue tape..
Once you pay them, you will find it very hard to get anybody to come back. This is when I get hired by people building a house for the first time. I've spent an entire week fixing issues and had to work around a stack of sheetrock 3 feet thick that they where charged for. That was the worse case. I've also been hired to clean up the mess that was left, including scraping joint compound off of the floors in every room and on the windows where the plastic came loose.
If you have never dealt with a crew hanging sheetrock, be sure you have a plan for clean up. Most crews will not clean up their mess.
Be sure that the cut out every outlet and switch box. Count them for every room before they start and then count them when they are done. It's common to have something covered up that can be a real pain to find later on.
Expect a massive mess when they texture the walls. Have everything covered in plastic, and put tarps over the plastic on the ground. Assume that they will NOT do a good job of doing this!!!!
If you are paying for each sheet, count how many you actually get delivered and how many are left over. Do not pay until they pick up the leftover sheets and they deduct the.cost of materials according to how many sheets they didnt use.
Be sure that they use 5/8s sheetrock on the ceilings. Half inch will sag on a ceiling over time.
Expect to have somebody with a criminal record in there at.some point. It's very common for felons to get a job doing this type of work. Dont leave anything of value out or in sight!!!
Be sure every sheet is mailed or screwed completely. With some crews, one guy will cut and install the sheetrock, a other will install all the screws or nails. I've seen several closets and small rooms that only had 4 nails in the sheet after they have been long gone.
Screws are better then nails, but nails are faster to get a sheet up, so it's common to have both in a sheet.
Have a roll of blue tape to mark issues. They hate this and might pull it down and pretend it wasnt there. Be sure to count how many places you marked with blue tape..
Once you pay them, you will find it very hard to get anybody to come back. This is when I get hired by people building a house for the first time. I've spent an entire week fixing issues and had to work around a stack of sheetrock 3 feet thick that they where charged for. That was the worse case. I've also been hired to clean up the mess that was left, including scraping joint compound off of the floors in every room and on the windows where the plastic came loose.