Vapor barriers & firecore vs mold sheetrock

[queequeg152]

1" drywall? lol wtf, do they let you double up on 5/8's or 1/2" boards like they do with partition walls and acoustic walls etc?

i can see the glue being an issue though.

 

[queequeg152]

I've had to unload stand up and install dozens of 16' 5/8th panels by myself @ 140 lbs a piece, and I only weigh 160. Not really that bad. Impossible without proper technique, though. I had to be shown how.

Commercial dudes apparently don't believe in "help". Each dude has his own lift and carries his own panels. I've offered to help little guys carry those big panels and gotten laughed at.

lol are your arms jacked?

what technique do you use? those panel carrier things maby?

im going to be replumbing and building new duct for my moms place. her house has this atrium area... the footprint is kinda like a lower case 'h', the attic space is basically inaccessible along one the legs of the 'h'.

i thought of trying the "ultra light" 5/8" ceiling board... but ive tried fucking with the light weight half inch wall board... and it cuts and smaps like shit, AND there are literally air bubbles at the surface of the paper. this means when you are scoring your knife will drop into the bubbles and stop.

 

[HazyBulldog]

1" drywall? lol wtf, do they let you double up on 5/8's or 1/2" boards like they do with partition walls and acoustic walls etc?

i can see the glue being an issue though.

Twice the time, twice the screws, twice the cost. Gotta man up and use the 1" board. Boss doesn't like people that can't produce at the same level as the guys around him or her.

 

[Bobby Boucher]

lol are your arms jacked?

what technique do you use? those panel carrier things maby?

I do have an abnormal amount of strength. I can jump forwards and backwards over my own shoulders @ 5'10 160 all day long.. The dude I was trying to help though was tiny, 5'6 140 soaking wet with some shrimpy little arms, and he had 0 problems.

Technique was pretty strait forward. No panel carriers, just came down to shaking/bouncing the panels off the flat bed to reduce friction/abrasions, and carrying the panels in a way the allows you to set it down and roll it up off of a flat edge rather than a corner. Standing up a 16' panel looks sketchy as fuck no matter how you do it. I'm pretty sure anything under 5/8ths would have just snapped.

 

[HazyBulldog]

Stand those up? Crazy, those should be railroaded.

All the buildings I worked in were multi story, but didn't have a service elevator. (up to six stories usually) Had to carry everything up the stairs. The fire rated core doors were the worst. 8' tall, 1 3/4 thick, stuffed with chalk to make a fire rating. Always started with those if possible, both bringing up the stairs and setting. Get the hard stuff out of the way.

 

[Bobby Boucher]

Stand those up? Crazy, those should be railroaded.

Mexican engineering, right?! I am just now reading how these panels are SUPPOSED to be used, but everything came out fine in the end. Worked very well with the 16' ceilings and we were able to hammer out ~100 panels in no time.