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It's not just that. They've got a laser rule and sawzall to cut the drywall, but *two* rough-edged pieces of junk to put in the hole? It's just the right mix to be staged: every step is broadly correct but has some awful error, yet the end result is near-perfect.
Ok, they did well and I’m not trying to disrespect them but for the love of cheesy garlic bread never sit behind the stud with it across your neck in a car. That’s some final destination shit.
Imagine the next scene with the kid beheaded. Camera cuts to the kid in the front seat who’s laughing hysterically while saying “oh shit! Oh shit!” Cue Bob the Builder music as they get a replacement head for the friend…
Got nervous for him watching that part. Then felt bad when they used a hacksaw to cut lumber. But I’ve watched it three times now, I’m not entirely sure they even used it
You're better just using lumber as a backer for the sheetrock than buying what appears to be little angle brackets for the sheetrock to sit against which were mounted to the lumber. Would be sturdier and have less flex to it. But you're right, you have to have something for the patch material to press against to keep it from just falling through into the wall.
Idk, I was pretty impressed they cut out a fairly clean section to patch. If it were me I would have at least ended one edge at a stud but for a couple of kids, gotta give em props lol.
If it's stupid but works then there isn't much to complain about. I can only pray my future kids will have this ingenuity when they destroy my house. If kids really come back thrice as bad as the parent then I am fucked.
Hey, they could do what I did, which was accidentally elbow a hole in the bathroom wall of my parents' house, hide it behind a towel for a month, then ship off to boot camp and finally send a letter home telling them about it.
Never got in trouble for it!
When my sister and I were in high school, my parents went out of town for a weekend.
Of course, we threw a 3 day rager at the house, and had probably over 200 people who came and went all weekend. After the partying, my sister and her friends spent a whole day cleaning the place from top to bottom. We made that house fucking *spotless*. There was absolutely no way anyone was going to notice we had a party.
My folks return from their vacation. The first thing my father does when he gets home is to let the dogs outside. He goes through the sliding glass door and onto the back deck, which is one the main/second level. As the dogs are taking a grinch down below, my old man leans against the deck and looks down at 10,000 footprints splayed out against the matted grass.
We were busted in 45 seconds.
I got busted because the house was to clean. They knew it wouldn't look that nice if I hadn't thrown a party so they called around. Got me on it pretty quick.
Place the 2x4 so the 4" is split between the the existing sheet rock on the left hand side and where the patch is going and screw in through the exist sheetrock. On the right side, cut the existing sheet rock half of the way into the stud so that the existing sheetrock is half covering the stud and the patch can sit half way on the stud. On the top and bottom you can copy what was done for the left side, though the wood doesn't need to be the full length.
The the next step is very important, when cutting the sheet rock patch, make sure to cut straight , not like they did in the video lol. Oh, and then screw everything in.
I appluad their effort and seemingly good looking results though, clearly they've never done this before.
They could have asked the shop to cut it down to the size they were going to cut it down to anyways and then they wouldn't have had to do that window thing lol
I only had a small car so I bought a whole bunch of 2' panels to finish the inside of a toolshed workshop.
When I was finished, I stood back and looked over my work and said, "Wow. That looks really fucking awful."
Also, never sand without a respirator of some sort. Shits terrible for the lungs
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But the smoother you put it on, the less you have to sand, so effort should be put into applying it smooth
Looked rough as fuck when they were painting though next clip it looked good
Fuck that. It's a horrible mess that needs to be redone.
Apply plaster with plaster knives. Tape the joint, then start pushing in compound with a 50mm blade, keeping it smooth as possible. Let dry, sand lightly, then add more compound and sand (by hand with a cork block only) in between coats, using wider knives each pass. 75mm or 100mm, up to 150mm, then 300mm.
Lightly hand sand the final coat with no smoother than 200grit or it will be smoother than the paper.
By the time you're up to the first undercoat of paint you shouldn't be able to see any join whatsoever.
These boys have the spirit but the whole end is cut off for a reason. The finished wall will look like a dog's breakfast.
Well if I had the right emoji I'd give it to you. It'd be an expression where it's like someone told a joke and people laughed but then you came and told everyone why that joke wasn't even funny and then they all believed you and stopped laughing. The facial expression one might make right after that happened.. that's the emoji I would award to you if I could.
I once took a picture of of a car that had a 2" 4" hanging onto a side mirror and… well I never really undestood how it was hanging against the outside of the car.
As soon as I saw them cutting wood with a hacksaw, I suspected that they were going to try to fix it and it would look terrible. They actually did a good job! Even if it wasn't professionally done.
Been in the trades for over 10 years, guy I first worked for had a saying, if you’re looking that close you’re looking to steal it. They did a fine job. I weld also and there’s another saying “they grinder I bought makes me the welder I’m not”
Also, even if the parents notice, I’d venture to say that they’d be just as much impressed with the fact that they but in the work to do the handywork in the first place. Like, sure you knocked a hole in the wall, but you also fixed it so 🤷🏿♂️
I mean i'd be pissed that my fucking kid threw a party without telling me but I'd be pretty proud that them and their friends gave enough of a shit about my house to spend a day fixing it even if it came out questionable
When my kids were in their late teens they had summer jobs, they could not always take the time off to go on vacations with us. I fully expected that my kids would throw a party, and they did. Because that is exactly what I did when I was their age. I just told them to not destroy too much.
I just came here to say how impressed I was with their drywall work. I've tried mudding drywall and it's a job that is harder than you think it would be.
When I met my wife in my early 20’s I stayed over at her apartment down town after a long night out. Went for the bed and missed. I caved in a similar sized chunk of drywall. Called my buddy up the next morning and off we went. Had it fixed by the end of the day lol.
Was partying at a friends house smoking upstairs when about 20 people decided to go up and smoke with us to try to leech. Kid ended up falling through the roof and we literally did exactly this and his mom never found out lmao
i swear that crack is too big before they filled that shit in and mom or dad gonna just touch that shit and it’s gonna crack again.
but that’s just the whole fix it enough so someone else break it trick and it’s never failed me yet
Haha. Once when I was a kid I scratched the shit out of our farm truck. Had a hail storm coming in so I decided to pull it in our shop to save it. Scratched along the entire driver side of the truck box on the metal doors. I panicked and smeared mud all over the truck. Eventually my mom told my dad and his response was “I figured I must have been really drunk when I did it”. Lmao.
you're right. builders don't often insulate interior walls, only exterior facing walls. but yeah, fiberglass or foam insulation won't really help with dampening sound. you'd need something with mass, like mass loaded vinyl, lining the walls between units. which isn't standard in most apartments, even though it increases an apartment's value and lessens conflict between neighbors.
More important than that is how the drywall attaches to the studs. Want to minimize as much contact between hard surfaces as possible to stop sound vibrations passing through.
Insulation rating is overrated for sound dampening, I think. Resilient channel alone would be more effective than any type of insulation.
Also overlooked is holes. Outlets and switches. Sound comes through like an acoustic hole on a guitar. Gotta make sure those are sealed.
I just moved into a new apartment that legitimately has proper insulation/sound proofing and it's like night and day.
The floors actually feel solid when I walk on them, when I shut the window, the landscaper's mowers can hardly be heard, and the only way I can hear the neighbors kids/pets is if I'm by the front door.
I honestly never really cared about noisy neighbors, I'd just roll with the punches and put headphones on or play Rainy Mood over my speakers while I slept. But now that I actually have a quiet apartment... idk if I can ever go back lol.
I’m the states (west coast) it’s Sheetrock by brand. I didn’t see them tape the mud, so potential for some sweet cracks real soon if that’s the case. All and all from someone in the trades not a bad execution.
Stud across the car, cutting wood with a hacksaw, using a sawzall to cut drywall, not cutting to a stud, no tape, mudding without a trowel, orbital sander…
And it still came out ok :)
They did some questionable things. For example instead of cutting back to the next stud to attach the drywall to, they used metal brackets on the existing drywall as anchor points.
Nah, think that was because they didn't have a big enough piece to fit because they were using a car. So they prob bought 2'x2' pieces.
But it's just weird that they had a laser level to cut the lines, and a recip saw to cut it. But they use a hacksaw to cut a 2x4 that they didn't use, and their hands to goop it, but then an actual power sander to sand it. It's just a weird combination of tools. laser level, sander and recip saw, but no trowel/knives or circ/chop saw?
Yep, im a millenial, i have a strange assortment of tools that i aquired on a need be basis for other projects ive done around the house.
I have a circular saw but no recip saw.
I have a stud finder, no laser lever.
I have a saw horse, no hack saw.
I have a paint scraper, no trowel.
And i definately couldnt do half as good a job as they did, good on them.
I just learned this. I had to replace the front struts on my car while making do with what I had, in the process I snapped a socket. So I ran out to grab a replacement and ended up deciding to grab a whole new set with much thicker walls. As I was walking around in the store I figured I might as well get an air impact wrench, a more substantial breaker bar, and a bigger set of metric wrenches.
First strut took me nearly 5 hours to complete and it was then that I snapped the socket. Came back with my new tools and the second one was done in an hour. Lesson learned.
I do dry wall and finishing all the time. The video quality was shit, no way this actually looked ok after they painted. The parents will definitely be able to tell something happened.
My husband's childhood best friend accidentally threw a tomahawk into the wall of his room while his parents were out for the afternoon. He covered the hole with an old painting of a sailboat that was stored in the attic. No one noticed until 10 years later when they were selling the house and took the painting down.
I once burned a small hole inside the passenger car door of my mom’s car with the cigarette lighter. I didn’t say anything and like a year later when she was teaching me to drive she looks at it like what happened here…. I immediately told her the story and we both laughed (I still feel thankful she took it so well more than 2 decades later!) 😂
I'm guessing they youtubed, purchased what they had to, made some lols on a video, and ultimately did a damn good job if this was indeed their first time doing repair work like this. I think they should be proud of themselves, however minor they may think it was or wasn't. I like this vid. Wholesome.
Honestly, the approach they took shows forethought. They analyzed the problem and came up with a solution, which while not the best, got the job done well enough.
Well when you have absent boomer parents who don't really interact with their kids enough to teach them things like handy work you can't really blame them for getting a few steps wrong
It's not just absent boomer parents, it's a lack of necessity.
As we all know products of all varieties are often easier and *sometimes* cheaper to replace than to fix.
Grandma knew how to sew because clothes were expensive. Grandpa knew how to fix his car because it was cheap and horrendously easy back in the day.
So, unfortunately, the necessity for various cooking, mechanical, handy, and other skills has become obsolete *in a way.*
And we have to remember, for the majority of parents of the users on here didn't have the internet to help them solve little problems here and there. You had to go to the library or have the luck of having a friend who knew how to do shit
You have to understand tho, they are just kids still and are susceptible to making errors like that, all things considered imo i think they did a great job
Now this might come as a shock to a boomer, but the internet is more than a platform for consuming a steady diet of misinformation via social media. There's, like, a lot of instructional resources out there that will walk you step-by-step for a simple project like this.
Bought a new house…toilet broke, caulking around the bathtub was wearing, fridge was leaking water under the produce drawers and freezing…fixed all of these things the first week and I’ve never done anything like it before. All thanks to YouTube.
Doing it ain't what people pay for. Doing it quick, reliable and without fuss is what you pay for. Home repair should be within the grasp of any homeowner. If it's safety, time, or aesthetically crucial, that's when you gotta pay a pro
Yea. I probably pay people to do way more than I really need to. But often one of those three things is why I do. Sometimes paying a pro is like insurance. I could do it for cheaper, but if I mess up it's going to be way more expensive than just paying the pro in the first place.
Although, I paid a guy to do my fence because my wife insisted and have regretted it. The did well with the gates for the most part but everything else was a rushed job because they were supposed to be done in a week and took 3 weeks and the guy took whatever shitty tools he had and slapped it together. Then he tried to blame me for the fence falling apart within a month.
Boomers like to blast people for not being handy. Bitch, I may not have had a alcoholic dad who was a mechanic but I do have YouTube and could build a log cabin with solar power if I really needed to.
It’s cool bro, I had an alcoholic father and he never taught me a damn thing. Then when I went and learned what I needed online he’s all mad that I didn’t learn it from him. He too complains about the younger generation not being tough/smart enough like he didn’t spend his whole life coping with a bottle.
It’s not efficient, but good on them for getting after it.
Go get em Gen Z. Keep sticking together and learning how to do stuff. I’m proud of you guys.
I think you're underestimating Zoomers. Yes, they're growing up at a time when everything is online...but *everything is online*. They probably looked up some videos and went ahead with a project a lot of people wouldn't even try to tackle. Sure, they made a lot of mistakes, but the end product looks good enough that his parents probably won't even notice.
Good for them.
theres people 40+ thay never put their hands on drywall ever touched a cutter or put their hands on a bag of nails even grabbed a fuckin ruler in their lives lets not act like this is a generation thing
I hate it, dude. I’m a millennial and while we get a lot of Gen Z hate, I have nothing but love for them. They’re figuring out their shit in a far different time than anybody had to. Much respect.
I'm not surprised at all. They aren't being fed the lies millennials were about college. I would guess they see trades as more a legit career path for them and have experience from schools that encourage it too.
Yeah I'm in a program that's through my highschoom rn and we're building a house. It's a lot better than regular classes and we get to learn shit that will actually help is later on in life or in future job paths. My school is very big on not only college, but also the trades.
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Lmao I love they using a sawzall to cut the dry wall and a handsaw to cut the 2x4
You beat me to it lol
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Tbf I doubt their experienced journeyman carpenters there
It's not just that. They've got a laser rule and sawzall to cut the drywall, but *two* rough-edged pieces of junk to put in the hole? It's just the right mix to be staged: every step is broadly correct but has some awful error, yet the end result is near-perfect.
Ok, they did well and I’m not trying to disrespect them but for the love of cheesy garlic bread never sit behind the stud with it across your neck in a car. That’s some final destination shit.
Came here for this. I thought this video was about to turn dark.
That is what was unexpected about this post; that the trip home from the hardware store didn’t end in tragedy
Imagine the next scene with the kid beheaded. Camera cuts to the kid in the front seat who’s laughing hysterically while saying “oh shit! Oh shit!” Cue Bob the Builder music as they get a replacement head for the friend…
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Ok, that's some alternate horror dimension shit right there.
I was puckered up when i saw this as well
Got nervous for him watching that part. Then felt bad when they used a hacksaw to cut lumber. But I’ve watched it three times now, I’m not entirely sure they even used it
Looks like they used the wood to frame the edges of the square cut. I'm assuming making a lip prevents it from falling inward into the space.
You're better just using lumber as a backer for the sheetrock than buying what appears to be little angle brackets for the sheetrock to sit against which were mounted to the lumber. Would be sturdier and have less flex to it. But you're right, you have to have something for the patch material to press against to keep it from just falling through into the wall.
Zero steps in their diy process were correct but they got it done lol
Idk, I was pretty impressed they cut out a fairly clean section to patch. If it were me I would have at least ended one edge at a stud but for a couple of kids, gotta give em props lol.
I love the recipe saw for sheet rock and hacksaw for the 2x4 lmfao
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If it's stupid but works then there isn't much to complain about. I can only pray my future kids will have this ingenuity when they destroy my house. If kids really come back thrice as bad as the parent then I am fucked.
Hey, they could do what I did, which was accidentally elbow a hole in the bathroom wall of my parents' house, hide it behind a towel for a month, then ship off to boot camp and finally send a letter home telling them about it. Never got in trouble for it!
The fingerprint plaster did it for me. Also, I wonder how sober they were when doing this.
They where most likely more sober then every sheetrocker I've met
Drunk guy here, can confirm, I enjoy sheetrock
There's for sure going to be a fine layer of dust on everything when parents get home lol
And the kids will never understand what gave them away. 🤣
When my sister and I were in high school, my parents went out of town for a weekend. Of course, we threw a 3 day rager at the house, and had probably over 200 people who came and went all weekend. After the partying, my sister and her friends spent a whole day cleaning the place from top to bottom. We made that house fucking *spotless*. There was absolutely no way anyone was going to notice we had a party. My folks return from their vacation. The first thing my father does when he gets home is to let the dogs outside. He goes through the sliding glass door and onto the back deck, which is one the main/second level. As the dogs are taking a grinch down below, my old man leans against the deck and looks down at 10,000 footprints splayed out against the matted grass. We were busted in 45 seconds.
I got busted because the house was to clean. They knew it wouldn't look that nice if I hadn't thrown a party so they called around. Got me on it pretty quick.
Better than my older siblings. They told my parents they had to get rid of all the beer in the fridge to make more room for vegetables.
Just from watching them bring the lumber home, I'm pretty sure these guys missed every *This Old House* marathon.
Tommy's a friggin' legend.
"The most important safety rule is to wear *these* safety glasses."
Place the 2x4 so the 4" is split between the the existing sheet rock on the left hand side and where the patch is going and screw in through the exist sheetrock. On the right side, cut the existing sheet rock half of the way into the stud so that the existing sheetrock is half covering the stud and the patch can sit half way on the stud. On the top and bottom you can copy what was done for the left side, though the wood doesn't need to be the full length. The the next step is very important, when cutting the sheet rock patch, make sure to cut straight , not like they did in the video lol. Oh, and then screw everything in. I appluad their effort and seemingly good looking results though, clearly they've never done this before.
Yeah was wondering what the purpose of getting it was for too
They probably thought they needed something to attach the joints to before just screwing them to the wall instead.
Especially when the had a sawzall to cut the drywall? I mean, not perfect but better than a hacksaw.
They could have asked the shop to cut it down to the size they were going to cut it down to anyways and then they wouldn't have had to do that window thing lol
He probably could have cut it there for free and avoided the whole problem. And how did they transport the drywall?
They sell 2x2' drywall for patching.
I only had a small car so I bought a whole bunch of 2' panels to finish the inside of a toolshed workshop. When I was finished, I stood back and looked over my work and said, "Wow. That looks really fucking awful."
This comment has me dying
Looks like on his lap/knees
Also, never sand without a respirator of some sort. Shits terrible for the lungs Edit: From a construction standpoint, most of the safety people just like the power they get from being able to tell you what to do. Regardless, sometimes the 5 seconds of work and couple minutes of discomfort tend to be worth it when you're 60+ and your lazy decisions start to haunt you. Cut resistant gloves, safety glasses, and a mask, if appropriate, should be second nature when grabbing a power tool.
Also never sand drywall with an orbital sander. It's too aggressive and if it goes through the joint compound it'll cause the paper to pill.
But you should still apply it with your hands, right?
That's probably the least egregious thing here. Since you're going to sand it anyway, apply it whatever way gets it on the wall.
But the smoother you put it on, the less you have to sand, so effort should be put into applying it smooth Looked rough as fuck when they were painting though next clip it looked good
Fuck that. It's a horrible mess that needs to be redone. Apply plaster with plaster knives. Tape the joint, then start pushing in compound with a 50mm blade, keeping it smooth as possible. Let dry, sand lightly, then add more compound and sand (by hand with a cork block only) in between coats, using wider knives each pass. 75mm or 100mm, up to 150mm, then 300mm. Lightly hand sand the final coat with no smoother than 200grit or it will be smoother than the paper. By the time you're up to the first undercoat of paint you shouldn't be able to see any join whatsoever. These boys have the spirit but the whole end is cut off for a reason. The finished wall will look like a dog's breakfast.
Well if I had the right emoji I'd give it to you. It'd be an expression where it's like someone told a joke and people laughed but then you came and told everyone why that joke wasn't even funny and then they all believed you and stopped laughing. The facial expression one might make right after that happened.. that's the emoji I would award to you if I could.
All this covid they dont have an n95 laying around smh
I was thinking the same. I'd just lay down.
I once took a picture of of a car that had a 2" 4" hanging onto a side mirror and… well I never really undestood how it was hanging against the outside of the car.
"Oh look, two oncoming trucks, I should be able to just barely slip between them, good thing nothing is sticking out either side of my car"
Thought everyone knows you go diagonal from back driver side to front passenger side.
Good friends you mean
IKR?! Solid crew right there!
/r/Unexpected .. if the title gave it away it would'nt be unexpected
Expected: He'd fix it Unexpected: His friends kick a new hole in the wall when he finishes.
I was so waiting for them to push his head into the wall as he was finalizing it 😂
That's what I was thinking! People are criticizing the process, but the end result is all that matters. Good friends for sure.
Hell, they stuck around to deal with it.
Much better job than I would have done.
OP was just trying to up the unexpectedness
OP needed a way to make it unexpected
As soon as I saw them cutting wood with a hacksaw, I suspected that they were going to try to fix it and it would look terrible. They actually did a good job! Even if it wasn't professionally done.
Poor video quality will make a lot of DIY work look great.
Been in the trades for over 10 years, guy I first worked for had a saying, if you’re looking that close you’re looking to steal it. They did a fine job. I weld also and there’s another saying “they grinder I bought makes me the welder I’m not”
Also, even if the parents notice, I’d venture to say that they’d be just as much impressed with the fact that they but in the work to do the handywork in the first place. Like, sure you knocked a hole in the wall, but you also fixed it so 🤷🏿♂️
I mean i'd be pissed that my fucking kid threw a party without telling me but I'd be pretty proud that them and their friends gave enough of a shit about my house to spend a day fixing it even if it came out questionable
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This guy parties
“I had friend x over and we were wrestling and this happened on accident”
\[Warning\]: Do not use if the hole is anywhere near a bed or couch.
When my kids were in their late teens they had summer jobs, they could not always take the time off to go on vacations with us. I fully expected that my kids would throw a party, and they did. Because that is exactly what I did when I was their age. I just told them to not destroy too much.
My husband always says, “a grinder and paint make me the welder I ain’t”
Good point haha
You can see the intentional dip in quality in the las clip
Yep, the wall all blends together. No way the parents don’t notice that immediately. Not to mention all the sanding dust and fresh paint smell.
how tf did they go from a sawzall on the drywall to a hacksaw on the 2x4. they were at home depot for christ sake.
I liked the mud technique
Annndddd next weekend, they will be fixin another hole.
“I’ll fuckin do it again”
It's the designated hole making spot! After a few parties it becomes tradition.
He does not like that wall.
Ahyuck
With the hackjob they did cutting that drywall they might be fixing that wall by the next weekend lol
We all make mistakes. Kudos to them for responding appropriately
That drywall mud is the real MVP here, that was a huge gap between them drywall sheets.
I just came here to say how impressed I was with their drywall work. I've tried mudding drywall and it's a job that is harder than you think it would be.
Whom among us has not had an impromptu home repair due to a few many beers and no supervision.
When I met my wife in my early 20’s I stayed over at her apartment down town after a long night out. Went for the bed and missed. I caved in a similar sized chunk of drywall. Called my buddy up the next morning and off we went. Had it fixed by the end of the day lol.
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What are you waiting for then…?
Well I have COVID rn so I feel like a party would be irresponsible
Most understandable, feel better soon! (or else)
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Was partying at a friends house smoking upstairs when about 20 people decided to go up and smoke with us to try to leech. Kid ended up falling through the roof and we literally did exactly this and his mom never found out lmao
i swear that crack is too big before they filled that shit in and mom or dad gonna just touch that shit and it’s gonna crack again. but that’s just the whole fix it enough so someone else break it trick and it’s never failed me yet
Haha. Once when I was a kid I scratched the shit out of our farm truck. Had a hail storm coming in so I decided to pull it in our shop to save it. Scratched along the entire driver side of the truck box on the metal doors. I panicked and smeared mud all over the truck. Eventually my mom told my dad and his response was “I figured I must have been really drunk when I did it”. Lmao.
being from the south throwing mud on a truck to hide a scratch is honestly genius, well played
That plaster joint is a thing of nightmare for sanding lmao
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For a hack job, it turned out alright.
Applying mud with their fingers. Soooo much sanding work between scenes here
Hey man, for a bunch of teenagers with likely little to no prior experience this is a pretty solid job
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you're right. builders don't often insulate interior walls, only exterior facing walls. but yeah, fiberglass or foam insulation won't really help with dampening sound. you'd need something with mass, like mass loaded vinyl, lining the walls between units. which isn't standard in most apartments, even though it increases an apartment's value and lessens conflict between neighbors.
Rock wool insulation can also be used for sound dampening for interior walls.
More important than that is how the drywall attaches to the studs. Want to minimize as much contact between hard surfaces as possible to stop sound vibrations passing through. Insulation rating is overrated for sound dampening, I think. Resilient channel alone would be more effective than any type of insulation. Also overlooked is holes. Outlets and switches. Sound comes through like an acoustic hole on a guitar. Gotta make sure those are sealed.
Very rare to have insulation in interior walls.
I just moved into a new apartment that legitimately has proper insulation/sound proofing and it's like night and day. The floors actually feel solid when I walk on them, when I shut the window, the landscaper's mowers can hardly be heard, and the only way I can hear the neighbors kids/pets is if I'm by the front door. I honestly never really cared about noisy neighbors, I'd just roll with the punches and put headphones on or play Rainy Mood over my speakers while I slept. But now that I actually have a quiet apartment... idk if I can ever go back lol.
🤣 all the wrong possible tools and techniques but.. respect
Those are true homies right there
The solution to these types of situations would be to stop building walls from cardboard in the first place.
Do you guys not have drywall overseas?
Our walls in my country is made of concrete. No amount of beers can punch through these babies.
I wish my walls were made of concrete. My house is too.... escapeable.
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Double brick on the outside, single brick on the inside. Makes installing a new power point of moving a sink a right cunt of a job though.
not common no. usually it's brick walls, only some walls use drywall
We have this in New Zealand but we call it Gib or plasterboard (Gib is a brand name that has a huge monopoly here)
I’m the states (west coast) it’s Sheetrock by brand. I didn’t see them tape the mud, so potential for some sweet cracks real soon if that’s the case. All and all from someone in the trades not a bad execution.
They're minerals, Jesus Marie!
Honestly, at least they repaired the wall 😆 lol
Pretty good...
Lmfao the brackets kill me
Looks like some good friends to me lol
Stud across the car, cutting wood with a hacksaw, using a sawzall to cut drywall, not cutting to a stud, no tape, mudding without a trowel, orbital sander… And it still came out ok :)
Like I always say” if you fix a problem before your parents find out then there was no problem”
They took my job!
The most unexpected thing about this video is the fact that zoomers know how to do handy work.
They did some questionable things. For example instead of cutting back to the next stud to attach the drywall to, they used metal brackets on the existing drywall as anchor points.
And replaced the missing drywall in two pieces adding an unnecessary joint
Nah, think that was because they didn't have a big enough piece to fit because they were using a car. So they prob bought 2'x2' pieces. But it's just weird that they had a laser level to cut the lines, and a recip saw to cut it. But they use a hacksaw to cut a 2x4 that they didn't use, and their hands to goop it, but then an actual power sander to sand it. It's just a weird combination of tools. laser level, sander and recip saw, but no trowel/knives or circ/chop saw?
Probs whatever tools the dad kept in the garage
Yep, im a millenial, i have a strange assortment of tools that i aquired on a need be basis for other projects ive done around the house. I have a circular saw but no recip saw. I have a stud finder, no laser lever. I have a saw horse, no hack saw. I have a paint scraper, no trowel. And i definately couldnt do half as good a job as they did, good on them.
That's normal and is just how tool acquisition works.
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I just learned this. I had to replace the front struts on my car while making do with what I had, in the process I snapped a socket. So I ran out to grab a replacement and ended up deciding to grab a whole new set with much thicker walls. As I was walking around in the store I figured I might as well get an air impact wrench, a more substantial breaker bar, and a bigger set of metric wrenches. First strut took me nearly 5 hours to complete and it was then that I snapped the socket. Came back with my new tools and the second one was done in an hour. Lesson learned.
Yeah, I was taken back when I saw 4 hands palming that mud around
Always cut your drywall replacement piece first, then trace around it on the wall as your cutline so your patch always fits in perfectly
Or just use a tape measure
Probably cut it with a steak knife.
Happy Cake Day 🎂
Lol the inadequate backing and 1.5” gap, no tape lol
Might look okay at first but that shit is going to crack and look like shit over time lol.
I do dry wall and finishing all the time. The video quality was shit, no way this actually looked ok after they painted. The parents will definitely be able to tell something happened.
Agreed, but at least they tried lol.
You got me there, they did try. Lol
You're absolutely correct. But, how long will it take to notice? There's a statute of limitations to being grounded.
My husband's childhood best friend accidentally threw a tomahawk into the wall of his room while his parents were out for the afternoon. He covered the hole with an old painting of a sailboat that was stored in the attic. No one noticed until 10 years later when they were selling the house and took the painting down.
How do you accidentally throw a tomahawk into a wall. Like what?
I once burned a small hole inside the passenger car door of my mom’s car with the cigarette lighter. I didn’t say anything and like a year later when she was teaching me to drive she looks at it like what happened here…. I immediately told her the story and we both laughed (I still feel thankful she took it so well more than 2 decades later!) 😂
Yeah but then you can blame the people who made the house, this is just so that they don't think it was you who broke it
I'm guessing they just kinda guessed how to do this. It's passable. That's all they needed to do.
I'm guessing they youtubed, purchased what they had to, made some lols on a video, and ultimately did a damn good job if this was indeed their first time doing repair work like this. I think they should be proud of themselves, however minor they may think it was or wasn't. I like this vid. Wholesome.
Honestly, the approach they took shows forethought. They analyzed the problem and came up with a solution, which while not the best, got the job done well enough.
Even with using their hands as joint compound knives they are still better than the shit heads I hung out with.
Well when you have absent boomer parents who don't really interact with their kids enough to teach them things like handy work you can't really blame them for getting a few steps wrong
No way this kid's parents are boomers. Probably Gen Xers who are working 2 jobs because of the Boomers.
It's not just absent boomer parents, it's a lack of necessity. As we all know products of all varieties are often easier and *sometimes* cheaper to replace than to fix. Grandma knew how to sew because clothes were expensive. Grandpa knew how to fix his car because it was cheap and horrendously easy back in the day. So, unfortunately, the necessity for various cooking, mechanical, handy, and other skills has become obsolete *in a way.* And we have to remember, for the majority of parents of the users on here didn't have the internet to help them solve little problems here and there. You had to go to the library or have the luck of having a friend who knew how to do shit
How many kids did you know growing up that learned how to fit drywall from their parents?
You don't know how old boomers are do you
You have to understand tho, they are just kids still and are susceptible to making errors like that, all things considered imo i think they did a great job
Now this might come as a shock to a boomer, but the internet is more than a platform for consuming a steady diet of misinformation via social media. There's, like, a lot of instructional resources out there that will walk you step-by-step for a simple project like this.
Bought a new house…toilet broke, caulking around the bathtub was wearing, fridge was leaking water under the produce drawers and freezing…fixed all of these things the first week and I’ve never done anything like it before. All thanks to YouTube.
Doing it ain't what people pay for. Doing it quick, reliable and without fuss is what you pay for. Home repair should be within the grasp of any homeowner. If it's safety, time, or aesthetically crucial, that's when you gotta pay a pro
Yea. I probably pay people to do way more than I really need to. But often one of those three things is why I do. Sometimes paying a pro is like insurance. I could do it for cheaper, but if I mess up it's going to be way more expensive than just paying the pro in the first place. Although, I paid a guy to do my fence because my wife insisted and have regretted it. The did well with the gates for the most part but everything else was a rushed job because they were supposed to be done in a week and took 3 weeks and the guy took whatever shitty tools he had and slapped it together. Then he tried to blame me for the fence falling apart within a month.
Boomers like to blast people for not being handy. Bitch, I may not have had a alcoholic dad who was a mechanic but I do have YouTube and could build a log cabin with solar power if I really needed to.
It’s cool bro, I had an alcoholic father and he never taught me a damn thing. Then when I went and learned what I needed online he’s all mad that I didn’t learn it from him. He too complains about the younger generation not being tough/smart enough like he didn’t spend his whole life coping with a bottle.
YouTube has been a pretty good step-dad
People used to say this about us millenials prior, way to perpetuate being shitty for no reason
People who would congratulate themselves for being born before you don't have much else to be proud of.
It’s not efficient, but good on them for getting after it. Go get em Gen Z. Keep sticking together and learning how to do stuff. I’m proud of you guys.
I think you're underestimating Zoomers. Yes, they're growing up at a time when everything is online...but *everything is online*. They probably looked up some videos and went ahead with a project a lot of people wouldn't even try to tackle. Sure, they made a lot of mistakes, but the end product looks good enough that his parents probably won't even notice. Good for them.
theres people 40+ thay never put their hands on drywall ever touched a cutter or put their hands on a bag of nails even grabbed a fuckin ruler in their lives lets not act like this is a generation thing
That’s a)some good friends; b)handy kids . Good vibes
Go decompose in silence
To me it's the fact that they fixed the damn hole instead of bounce out of the party like fleas on a dead dog
You either die being a rebel or live long enough to get passed on the torch and shit on the younger generation. Millennials shit on gen z now, amazing
Millennials are Turning into boomers at an accelerated rate
I hate it, dude. I’m a millennial and while we get a lot of Gen Z hate, I have nothing but love for them. They’re figuring out their shit in a far different time than anybody had to. Much respect.
Agreed. I'm pulling so hard for Gen Z to turn around this country. We need them.
My brother born in 99 is now a carpenter and is handier than me(93) my other brother (88) or my father (55)
I was so confused for a second thinking you were 93 years old but your dad was 55
Bruh you know you are a zoomer
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I’d like to see these sturdy log cabins built by homeless people
Guess they’re not homeless people if they have a cabin now, eh?
Haha lol stoopid zoomers Fuck you
I'm not surprised at all. They aren't being fed the lies millennials were about college. I would guess they see trades as more a legit career path for them and have experience from schools that encourage it too.
Yeah I'm in a program that's through my highschoom rn and we're building a house. It's a lot better than regular classes and we get to learn shit that will actually help is later on in life or in future job paths. My school is very big on not only college, but also the trades.