I learned something today about sheet rock and the roto-zip tools.
A year ago we had some flooding in our area and several hundred homes were flooded. One home out in the country was flooded but the elderly couple did not get help. I found out about it just before Christmas. We got some volunteers to go and help the couple who were living with a daughter in a small home.
Five of us managed to buy enough sheet rock and personally install 1 and 1/2 bed rooms, and two bath rooms this past spring. I found a church about 150 miles away with a large group of experienced sheet rockers (and electricians) to agree to come and finish the inside of the house. We have some furniture also to help.
NOW to the point of sheet rock and the rotozip. Two weeks ago, 4 men from the church group came to look the house over and figure out the material and logistics for their group. They left. The next day I get a call from Jim:
“Hank, can you go back and count the number of outlets and switches that have NOT been sheet rocked already?”
Me: Yes.
Jim: We will send the electrician over before the sheet rocking and we are going to re-wire everything. We want to bring new electrical boxes and install them too so it will speed up the sheet rocking.”
Me: Ok I will find out.
NEXT DAY
I call Jim and tell him 21 outlets not sheet rocked.
Then I ask: What does the electrical box type have to do with speeding up sheet rock installation?
Jim: If they have the smooth rounded corner metal boxes, we just mark roughly where the outlet is, tack the sheet rock in place, stick the rotozip in at the x mark and move to the edge of the box, and then position the rotozip outside and follow the contour of the box. That speeds up installation by not having to measure each peace of sheet rock for outlets.
He said - you can’t use the rotozip with plastic very well, or the square edged boxes either. The round cornered ones speed up the installation by about ten minutes per sheet where there is an outlet.
The rounded edge type that you use rotozips to follow the contour:
Learned something new today!
A year ago we had some flooding in our area and several hundred homes were flooded. One home out in the country was flooded but the elderly couple did not get help. I found out about it just before Christmas. We got some volunteers to go and help the couple who were living with a daughter in a small home.
Five of us managed to buy enough sheet rock and personally install 1 and 1/2 bed rooms, and two bath rooms this past spring. I found a church about 150 miles away with a large group of experienced sheet rockers (and electricians) to agree to come and finish the inside of the house. We have some furniture also to help.
NOW to the point of sheet rock and the rotozip. Two weeks ago, 4 men from the church group came to look the house over and figure out the material and logistics for their group. They left. The next day I get a call from Jim:
“Hank, can you go back and count the number of outlets and switches that have NOT been sheet rocked already?”
Me: Yes.
Jim: We will send the electrician over before the sheet rocking and we are going to re-wire everything. We want to bring new electrical boxes and install them too so it will speed up the sheet rocking.”
Me: Ok I will find out.
NEXT DAY
I call Jim and tell him 21 outlets not sheet rocked.
Then I ask: What does the electrical box type have to do with speeding up sheet rock installation?
Jim: If they have the smooth rounded corner metal boxes, we just mark roughly where the outlet is, tack the sheet rock in place, stick the rotozip in at the x mark and move to the edge of the box, and then position the rotozip outside and follow the contour of the box. That speeds up installation by not having to measure each peace of sheet rock for outlets.
He said - you can’t use the rotozip with plastic very well, or the square edged boxes either. The round cornered ones speed up the installation by about ten minutes per sheet where there is an outlet.
The rounded edge type that you use rotozips to follow the contour:
Learned something new today!
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