My brother-in-law, a finish carpenter, called drywall 'the canvas of a house' and it stuck with me.

We were having a beer after helping him frame a garage in Tacoma. He said, 'You guys get the flat, perfect surface we all build from. A bad frame I can hide, but a bad sheetrock job shows forever.' I'd always just seen it as the step before mud, but he framed it as the foundation for everything else. Made me take way more pride in getting those sheets flat and tight. Do you ever think about it like that, or am I just overthinking after a couple beers?

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vera_dixon891mo ago

Honestly I used to think it was just the boring part before the fun stuff. But my old foreman said something similar, that EVERYTHING sticks to it or hangs on it. Now I see each sheet as this blank page that has to be perfect, or you're just building problems into the wall forever.

tessa_hunt421mo ago

Remember my buddy who rushed the drywall on his own garage? @vera_dixon89 He didn't get it flat and now every single shelf he tries to put up wobbles. That foreman advice is spot on.