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AuthorWe want your Expert help!

Posted on Jan 04, 09 at 03:30 PM

Are YOU a Home Repair Expert?

Then the Home Repair Clinic wants YOU! Please join in, offer your experience and wisdom, and promote your How To articles at Helium and elsewhere.

Leave a message right here to introduce yourself.

I'm Jim, nice to meet you!

Tina Hartley   

Re: We want your Expert help!
Reply #1 on: Jan 05, 09 at 07:56 AM

I have nearly 20 years experience in Drywall Installation. I've hung and fniished sheetrock up and down the eastern seaboard, from Pennsylvania to Florida.

New construction, remodeling and repairs - I've rocked over metal studs, wood studs and resilent channel.

Have a question on drywall? Ask away!

You can also find some of my drywall articles in H & G -Home repair - Other

Jim Bessey   

Re: We want your Expert help!
Reply #2 on: Jan 05, 09 at 11:47 AM

Welcome, Tina!

We should start a Drywall Questions thread, then, I'd say!

Glad to have you.

:-)

B. Leslie Baird   

Re: We want your Expert help!
Reply #3 on: Mar 04, 10 at 06:05 PM

I found you! I think I am really going to enjoy this! My "help" may be more from how not to than how to though. :) I can tell you I learned not to cut drywall with a circular saw. Strange thing but then you have to clear the area for several hours due to a very thick white cloud.......

Jim Bessey   

Re: We want your Expert help!
Reply #4 on: Mar 06, 10 at 03:57 PM

A lesson well learned, Barbara!

I still remember most of the mistakes I made when I first worked with drywall -- and I cringe.

:-)


~Jim Bessey  -  steward for Home & Garden

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Tina Hartley   

Re: We want your Expert help!
Reply #5 on: Mar 19, 10 at 02:32 PM

Hi Barbara,

Yes, cutting drywall with a circular saw would be a bit of overkill  :)  The good thing is - lessons learned the hard way are not soon forgotten. Id be happy to offer some tips for your next project. Please feel free to ask any questions!

B. Leslie Baird   

Re: We want your Expert help!
Reply #6 on: Mar 19, 10 at 03:37 PM

I have to say that I can across an article while rating - it recommended cutting drywall with a sawzall. I did not know whether to laugh or cry but it did not get my "happy" vote. :)

Jim Bessey   

Re: We want your Expert help!
Reply #7 on: Mar 21, 10 at 11:57 PM

A sawz-all, Barbara?!

I'm fine with the use of jigsaw or holesaw for fixture cut-outs, but a sawz-all?? Nyet!

And always use SHARP utility knife blades when scoring, cutting. Also learned that one the hard way...

Tina, great to see you!


~Jim Bessey  -  steward for Home & Garden

   My Portfolio    A tasty mixture

Mansions zoneMansions Zone - Drool-worthy!

 

How-To'sHow-To Zones - Shocking!

Tina Hartley   

Re: We want your Expert help!
Reply #8 on: Mar 22, 10 at 01:55 PM

Sawzall?? Now that's funny!

Jim, I have to ask... when you learned the hard way about only using sharp blades, did you screw up the cut, your hand, or both? :)

Thanks! Good to see you too!

Jim Bessey   

Re: We want your Expert help!
Reply #9 on: Mar 22, 10 at 11:59 PM

Dull blades wander, Tina.

They also make nasty little ragged cuts in both drywall and skin. That would be "both," I guess.

A long, long time ago - when I had won a contract to remodel my employer's newly-acquired sporting good store - I'm pretty sure I cut sheets of drywall by passing them thru a table saw. This would have been in the early 80's, so the memory is foggy; but if I did, can you imagine the mess I must have made??

Man...


~Jim Bessey  -  steward for Home & Garden

   My Portfolio    A tasty mixture

Mansions zoneMansions Zone - Drool-worthy!

 

How-To'sHow-To Zones - Shocking!

B. Leslie Baird   

Re: We want your Expert help!
Reply #10 on: Mar 23, 10 at 12:08 PM

Your memory is not foggy, the air was......

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