... that I did anyway.
Still sweating.
If joists are that close to the wall, why do you need noggins? Also why do you need a drill for noggins? Hammer and nails are the right weapons for this job! This is from an old carpenter who has literally put plasterboard up by the ton on ceilings over the years.
Works wonders for the concentration. An even better shock is to 'walk' off the end of a low scaffold when nailing plasterboard up on to the ceiling and forgetting to occasionally look down :-(
Yep, know the feeling LOL
Brian G
The message from "David Pearson" contains these words:
Why would you want to? But if you did you can always drill through from the other side of the joist.
What do you mean by a deadman? To me a deadman is a mountaineering device used for belaying in snow.
These days I seem to sweat if I as much as lift a little finger. :-)
An empty bottle? You really shouldn't drink and climb ladders - v. dangerous.
Henry
*Clue* - this is uk.d-i-y, not alt.mountaineering.look-at-me.
Bit of 2x1" a few inches longer than the floor to ceiling height, with a couple of feet of 2x1" screwed across the top so that it looks like a large "T". Offer your plasterboard to the ceiling, and spring the deadman into position under the board - it then leaves you free to tweak the board position and fix it, without any of the whinging you get from a human helper because his/her arms hurt! ;-)
The message from John Rumm contains these words:
Thanks.
I have made something similar in the past. (2 legs and nails rather than screws.) Just never come across the term before.
The message from Chris Bacon contains these words:
Run out of useful clues?
Hmmm... there is a gap almost as long as a drill-and-bit between the joist and wall. So I reckon (and I have been wrong before once or twice ;-) that the plasterboard would sag at the edges. So I will use chunky beading below instead.
As for hammer and nails... nail into hard concrete blocks? If it can be done, I can't do it!
Regards, David P (OP)
Yes, that's the one. Should have done that. As my da said, I should have used my noggin!
-DP (OP)
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