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Drywallers don’t understand anything except “it’s my turn to hang gypsum board.” It will be one of the first trades that is completely automated.

Mechanical, electrical, and plumbing contractors need to understand the most since their work goes all over the building and they’re on the project from start to finish.

Drywallers just come in and put up gypsum once walls have been framed and MEP has been roughed in, and then they leave.

Tapers and mudders command my respect, that’ a difficult trade to perfect. Holding up 4’ x 8’ sheets of gypsum and screwing it to studs might be hard work but it’s dead ass simple.

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>Drywallers don’t understand anything except “it’s my turn to hang gypsum board.”

This is incorrect; they know what my hammer means. Not just anybody's, mine.

–(former data center) Electrician

I hope you had a speech you gave to the drywall crew on each new project, something like:

“This is my hammer, it would do you well to remember it. If you don’t bury my boxes, you will not see my hammer again. If you bury my boxes, I guarantee you will see and feel my hammer. The decision is yours.”

For the better sheetrockers, I'd use my neodymium magnet (for the first few covered-boxes).

Any attitude (or challenges e.g: "there's no j-box there meeeeester") and out comes my Dead-On™ clawhammer (it's over 2ft long) -- "there it is!"

"Dead ass simple" for a new build with standard framing within lifting heights only.

Most drywall is installed in commercial buildings with drop ceilings, not houses. Tenant spaces usually get rebuilt every 10 years.

It’s dead ass simple when 95% of the walls extend beyond the grid, there’s very little hardlid ceiling in most commercial spaces.

Professional drywallers have panel hoists that can lift drywall 12’ tall.

Yeah, so 'dead ass simple' for professionals with gear in standard deployments then. That's a lot of qualifications.

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