A full sheet of drywall will not fit into a 36"x96" room through a 32" wide doorway. However you can jam it up trying such that you can't get it out without breaking something. I ended up having to cut it down with it jammed in the doorway.
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David
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Stuff like that used to really piss me off, until I realized that cutting the drywall in two makes it easier to handle, and I'm gonna be taping and mudding anyway, so what's one more joint???
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Drywall is evil. I run the other direction when someone asks me to help with that. I'll frame, roof, run electric or plumbing... don't ask me to install drywall.Comment
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Everything needs planning. Ever tried to move (remove) a sleeper sofa, that was put in before the doors were hung with their frames? I had to cut the *&^% thing up to get it out. Also from moving myself (couldn't really get any help), and the handicapped history in the family, I think doors should be larger, and preferably pocket doors, cars should have four doors, etc.She couldn't tell the difference between the escape pod, and the bathroom. We had to go back for her.........................Twice.Comment
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Cracker, I figured if I couldn't get it in the room I could get it out and cut it and still be ahead on the time to tape the joint. I didn't expect to jam it in there. This wasn't lack of planning as much as it was hopeful thinking.
David
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As David found out, sometimes it just doesn't fit
Mine was a little worse than having to cut a sheet of drywall. 8 years ago, I decided to build a 16' X 27' addition to our home. When it was completed, I was very happy with the way it turned out. It was almost perfect, and it was my first attempt at something that big. But---------
We had a chest type freezer in the basement of the original house. After the addition was completed, the freezer sighed it's last breath, and died. That's when I realized that the door to the outside was no longer there to use. And that meant I had a sharp turn on the staircase to negotiate. I didn't even try it because there was no way to get the freezer out of the basement without cutting it in pieces. But it makes a decent surface for many uses.
EdDo you know about kickback? Ray has a good writeup here... https://www.sawdustzone.org/articles...mare-explained
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Sleeper sofas are EVIL. I was going to help a buddy move one out of the upstairs of a duplex. He got impatient and started moving it before I got there. I arrived just in time to see him manhandling it down the stairs. And just in time to see it unfold suddenly and clip the end off his index finger. Ever since then I've made sure the sofa is securely tied shut before moving it.Bob
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Ed,
We have an elliptical trainer in our basement that we use that I am pretty sure is gonna have to come apart to come out. I framed the room around it back when I was finishing out the basement.
You can use inside the freezer for storage too. My folks have an old ice cream freezer that died long ago. They use it to store animal feed.David
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I've got you all beat. The basement of our house was a chiropractic office in a former life and the x-ray machine was moved in before the the walls were built. I had to cut the base (that the carriage for the tube rode on) to get the pieces small enough to move out. I took it to a recycler who paid two cents a pound (!!!) for the steel making a whopping $24 for the 1200 pound that I had to move. It was almost an insult - it was to my back, that's for sure! But I do agree, Dave. That dang drywall is truely evil. I have too many stories of its insults to me to even begin.Blessings,
Chiz
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Do you know about kickback? Ray has a good writeup here... https://www.sawdustzone.org/articles...mare-explained
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