I like certainteed And had the misfortune of being 6 boards short on Sunday to finish and ran to hd. Apparently all they have in 5/8th is ultra light. That chit is complete junk.

 

Certainteed is good stuff I just really hate Lafarge. All HD and lowes board sucks the best board is still hot off the press directly from the plant!

 

Certainteed is good stuff I just really hate Lafarge. All HD and lowes board sucks the best board is still hot off the press directly from the plant!

The date on our main order from my supplier was 1/28/14. Hardly enough time to ship it here

 

Anything other than USG Lightweight.

 

I have a plant within 10 miles of me on large orders we get truck from the factory. On a cold day you will pull board off the truck still steaming and hot from the press. I kid you not. Not that it makes the board any better though

 

We have a USG plant, and 3 very good large suppliers within 13 miles of my home. We can get just about any product we want from the major brands. I really feel for the guys who have to depend on suppliers pushing out the defective board. Hard to make time when flats turn into butt joints all day long.

 

I prefer goldbond. Toughrock not so much.

 

here in socal USG is our favorite.
and least favorite theres some 5/8 garbage called pabco.

 

I'm no drywaller, and I certainly don't pretend to want to be one, but what is the real problem with the lightweight board? Other than "it's junk" are there any real quality or finishing issues with it?

 

I feel the problem comes with hanging. I have not used it a whole lot, but you gotta watch because you can easily tear it up. You get more screw pops, paper tears easier, hard to snap...

 

The "problems" are not from the hanging. USG lightweight is terrific , but Georgia- Pacific is horrible.

 

Must be why we don't have problems with the lightweight, we use USG mostly. We don't use lightweight 5/8 on the ceiling, but man I hate hanging that heavy stuff.

 

I'm never buying half inch again . I'm only going to use 5/8 and not lightweight

 

On the rare occasion we get 5/8 lightweight I love it. But I would rather hang goldbond 5/8 any day

 

here the only brands are cgc, certainteed and toughrock. and thats the order i like them. I've gotten use to the light weight and dont really have any problems with it. The only thing i find is there is the odd air bubble in it and only noticable when cutting it.

 

Problems with L/W; doesn't cut and snap clean, can ding it with your fingernail, paper tears when putting screws in, does not hold screws well, since it doesn't hold screws well after up a bit screw pops, high shoulders to the point that almost every seam is a butt.

 

Our last basement we hung i specked out all gold bond high strength ceiling board.

It is about 27 pounds more than lite board but holds a screw perfect and cuts clean. Good screw holding is more important to us now that we run strictly collated. You can tell its density/strength when you carry its not making crackeling noises like lite board

 

I tend to move board from truck to a frame cart to elevator to A frame to stack in beam. From the stack to a a frame to the wall, I try my best not to carry more than a few feet

 

Has anyone ever played with the Aqua Tough Rock? Now that is some mean chit

 

I'm in Salt Lake. My employer buys from LW (locally called Building Specialists) and a local outfit called Swanson and they both carry the Pabco crap. Pabco is a regional brand made just outside Vegas. It has far more texture to the actual rock than any other brand I've used, including long fibers. It seems like that may add to its strength, which is nice, but it's terrible to cut. It doesn't snap, it slowly tears, especially if there's any humidity. And on this massive condo renovation job we're storing our materials in a vacant unit's garage, a few feet from the door so it is constantly exposed to the shifting weather/humidity this time of year. The long fibers are probably why it won't snap easily, and it's as itchy as any fiberglass I've ever encountered. And it leaves a rough edge that ALWAYS requires rasping, even when I score both sides before breaking it. Today I ordered a Blade Runner and a Tajima rasp, hoping that together it will make it a little less work. The biggest pieces I'm doing on this are about 6" strips around replacement entry doors and sidelights, along with little 2" sidelight window returns. I can't imagine needing to cut more often on a job than I am on this one, and they get me the worst boards in town.

For my own basement (45 boards) last week I ordered from LW and specifically said "Certainteed or USG". Half of the 4x8s were Pabco because "we were out of the others". Then tell me that and I'll order from someone else! I specified it for a reason! But I didn't know until after the delivery was complete.

I had also ordered three 16 foot boards. They brought me three 15 foot boards. "Oh, we don't stock 16s in Utah. We have to order those from California." THEN TELL ME AND I'LL ORDER FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE! With 15s I have a butt joint where it was supposed to be seamless! If I have to deal with a butt joint I'd rather two 8s than a 15 and a 1.

I will never order from them again.

 

16' is a common length, all of our suppliers stock 8' 8'6" 9' 10' 12' 14' and 16' although if you need a large quantity more than a few thousand sheets you need them ordered from a manufacturer

 

I know it is. I was going to go through Colonial Supply which stocks every full foot increment in both 48 and 54, and they only stock CertainTeed. But I got a modest price break by going through my employer's account. That was a mistake.