I usually get frustrated but today on a house call A guy had no receptacle on one wall,only 2 receptacles in his room as I poked around I found the electrical box buried after making up the box,both problems we're solved thank you dry waller's for saving me time for once! lol houses being sold with buried boxes happens to often here in las vegas I tell you what.
Funniest one I ever had was doing a farmhouse renovation. The rockers weren't bad guys so I was real surprised to walk in one day to finish trim and found a couple of upstairs rooms that were completely blank, not one single box.
I was dumbfounded, come to find out the foreman left his greenie on site with the instructions "Make sure there aren't any holes or cracks in these rooms." Well, he did a damn good job; taped and mudded every outlet.
Back in the 90's one neighborhood I was doing the Mexican drywallers were so bad we grabbed a brick wrote "electrical brick" on it and used it to find the buried boxes from 6' away. Cleared that problem up. Although a straight edge will find 99% of them quickly and damage free.
yes. Make sure powers off, identify wire going to missing receptacle or whatever from the previous point, clamp receiver on it and tone down the wall. Sometimes the sound can be faint but generally u can follow a wire anywhere.
Although I haven't tried it myself, I have heard how a 12 gauge shotgun also is a great way to demonstrate how to find buried electrical boxes in drywall. It impresses the drywall crew to no end.
Although I haven't tried it myself, I have heard how a 12 gauge shotgun also is a great way to demonstrate how to find buried electrical boxes in drywall. It impresses the drywall crew to no end.
As a younger man, I was known for a vicious temper and a very short fuse. I also did a lot of resi work at the time. I had asked the drywall hangers numerous times to be more dilligent about not burying my boxes numerous times on other job sites. On this particular site they had hit me on a bad day and I returned to a new construction house (to install the service) to find at least 10 boxes buried throughout the house. I very quietly walked into the living room while they were boarding a bedroom and buried an 8lb sledgehammer through the first wall, then proceeded to rip every piece of drywall down in that room.....even the ones that weren't hiding boxes. When one of the drywallers came at me I took a swing at him with my sledge....thankfully missing him and hitting a wall........ and tore that wall down as well. They ended up having to reboard the entire room as well as the wall adjoining kitchen wall. I never again had an issue with those particular drywallers burying my boxes but the judge didn't find the whole incident very amusing. I, of course, had to pay for the damages, and ended up losing any profit from that job.
No worries about pissing me off......those days are gone. Between my calming meds and getting older and mellower, I can actually be a nice guy from time to time now.:laughing:
I very rarely get along with dry wallers. If you ask them to do specific things, most of them will do the opposite out of spite. The real rockers make their pre cuts before hanging.
I had illegal rockers stealing ladders, filling boxes with mud, and being arses. Made a nice call on lunch to my friend who works at ICE. Those rockers were never seen again. :whistling2:
If we are responsible for temp power, we usually have carte blanche to cut the ends off any damaged cords.
One particular job where the GC was using their own rockers, who refused to do better at avoiding burying boxes and damaging wiring with Rotozips,etc., random bags of fish were found to have worked their way into the wall cavities. They had to damage much of their own work tracking down the smell, so I have been told.
If we are responsible for temp power, we usually have carte blanche to cut the ends off any damaged cords. One particular job where the GC was using their own rockers, who refused to do better at avoiding burying boxes and damaging wiring with Rotozips,etc., random bags of fish were found to have worked their way into the wall cavities. They had to damage much of their own work tracking down the smell, so I have been told.
I had an extension cord running thru a stud wall get rocked In once. The rockers literally notched the drywall where my cord ran over the bottom plate. I made the notches bigger with my boot to get my cord out.
I've got a taper that I work with a lot and he does a beautiful job. I'll recommend him to anyone that asks. Very little mud in the boxes etc. and he makes sure that there's no serious gaps around the boxes. Around here I know most of the people I'm working for so they'll usually listen to us if we recommend a plumber, taper, etc.
GC: "What's this for?"
EC: "Backcharge for time to unbury boxes due to "cheaper" drywallers.
The GC's gain should not come at the expense of the EC or anyone else.
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