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Rant: A job in a converted Portland warehouse showed me why you can't trust old framing to be square.
We were hanging board on a wall that looked fine, but the top plate was almost an inch out over 12 feet. The foreman kept saying 'mud will fix it,' but I knew that was a bad call. Had to pull it all down and shim every single stud before we could even start taping. Now I bring my 4-foot level to every old building job, no exceptions. How do you guys handle major out-of-square walls without adding a ton of time?
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richardh446mo ago
Ever seen someone try to hide a full inch with just tape and mud? I had a wall where the bottom plate was way off, and the guy before me just kept layering it on.
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shane_martinez447mo ago
Yeah, "mud will fix it" is a classic line. I saw a guy try to float a whole corner once, looked like a funhouse mirror when it dried.
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