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That March drywall run near Tulsa still bugs me
We showed up to a house where the builder had framed everything out of treated lumber that was still wet. By noon the studs had twisted so bad our sheets wouldn't line up, we had to shim every single joint with scrap. The crew worked 11 hours straight just to get half the place hung, and the builder swore it wasn't his problem. Has anyone else had a client who refused to wait for lumber to dry before you started?
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baker.phoenix1mo ago
Man, that brings back bad memories. Had a guy build a whole addition with green doug fir and we ended up using ratchet straps to pull walls straight before we could even think about hanging board. What finally worked was getting the builder to sign off on a change order for the extra labor, once he saw the number in writing he stopped saying it wasn't his problem real quick. After that job I started writing lumber moisture into my contracts, like if the wood reads over 19 percent on my meter we don't hang and it's a extra trip charge. Some guys act like you're being picky but a $30 meter saved me thousands. The other trick was hanging ceilings first when the studs are iffy, since the rock spans across and you can hide the waviness up top. Walls you can shim, ceilings you can't.
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