I was sheet rocking a commercial building a few years ago and after a few 4x10 sheets I'd have to add a stud there after for about a 100' per room.
I looked at the GC one day and just said " is your framing crew stupid? " Now they are his own guys so he defended them and said what... you don't see that it's 16" from stud to stud.... as the bone head looked at 16" on the tape and went from stud to stud... funny ing guy.
I pulled the tape from the second stud and went down as far as I could with my 30'... he didn't say much after that...
I asked him how long he'd been GCing, he said his paint business went so well why not go out and GC.
???...???...:no:... Needless to say that was the last job I did with him.
I'm sure what he's saying is that they put a stud in, then measured 16" to the next one. Instead of going to 32", 48", etc. they kept pulling 16" from the previous stud.
To be honest, as far as the funny scale meter goes, I'll give you a 2.
To clarify, he took the tape measure and pulled 16" and went to each gap and read about 16 in stead of pulling from the beginning of the wall like you would a lay out... I had to put the sheets vertical and not one time did I find 4'. This guy was a paint salesman running a million + dollar project. I just don't understand how someone can take on a project that large and not know basics as simple as pulling a layout on a wall... the job took forever.
To clarify, he took the tape measure and pulled 16" and went to each gap and read about 16 in stead of pulling from the beginning of the wall like you would a lay out... I had to put the sheets vertical and not one time did I find 4'. This guy was a paint salesman running a million + dollar project. I just don't understand how someone can take on a project that large and not know basics as simple as pulling a layout on a wall... the job took forever.
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