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Oct. 25th, 2006 12:25 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
which_chickThe baby hat has one earflap and needs another to be done. I don't think I'll get that done tonight but I surely will before Thursday which is when I'll next be seeing the baby. It's late and I have to pack clothes for two days at the lake conference thing and see to cat caretaking for that interval.
Exhibit A (Six Feet Under, Season 2): Rico is doing drywall work on his house, which suffered a mildew issue from leaking around the chimney. Having mildewed drywall around one's leaky chimney is not a faked house injury. My house has that. It's real. HOWEVER, the picture of Rico pasting the drywall is all entirely wrong. It looks like it's been set up by someone who has never actually done any fucking drywall.
First problem: The drywall should be mudded slightly and then taped along the seams. Also, the visible screws should be mudded. That's your first layer of excitement and, as we can see in this image, that stuff hasn't been done. In a real drywall job, you'd do that before you went around doing anything else.
Second problem: We can SEE that the drywall in this area has all bloody well been replaced (note visible screws) and yet Rico is filling some ghastly ass hole that involves AT LEAST two sheets of drywall (improbable -- given where the screws are, there should be all kinds of studs there) and nobody would ever do that. Ever. You'd cut the fucking drywall to FIT and there is no way that you wouldn't cut down and piece so that you didn't have a huge six inch hole in the damn stuff.
Third problem: Even if you wanted to do so, you can't bridge a gap that big with drywall paste. A hole larger than a fucking doorknob beats out is a bitch to repair -- without some kind of backing, it's going to look like hell AND as thick as he's laying that down, it's going to crack like shit. Ick.
Fourth problem: The damage we see there is not a realistic drywall failure caused by inept putting-up of drywall. Generally, if you're going to fuck things up, you will have problems at corners and joints (like wall-ceiling) due to non-square buildings. The most common thing that happens is that the corners get sheared off. The second most common thing that happens is that you mash an edge trying to shove the drywall into place. Neither of those fuckups causes holes like the one depicted.
The hole depicted would have been caused by some kind of severe blow to the drywall EXCEPT that we can see it is along a seam for two sheets. You can't screw drywall to air. The screws don't pull in and you can't mud over them. You can only screw drywall to studs. There have to be wooden 2x4 studs (or other screwable material) behind the drywall... so the drywall damage depicted here would not be particularly easy to inflict. It's kind of tough to beat the shit out of drywall that is resting directly on a stud -- it'll crack and fall off but the stuff is only half an inch thick.
Just. This is not a realistic drywall injury. This is not the sort of thing you'd be doing if you were repairing a mildew issue in your house and had to put in new drywall... even if you weren't very good at it.
Also, when you are mudding drywall, you have, yes, the drywall knife (the spatula thing Rico is spreading the paste around with) but you ALSO have the rectangular thing what holds the paste you have dipped out of the paste bucket and mushed up to the proper texture with the drywall knife. It's like the serving-size container. That. There is no rectangular thing what holds the paste in this shot, which makes me wonder where the hell it is.
Exhibit A (Six Feet Under, Season 2): Rico is doing drywall work on his house, which suffered a mildew issue from leaking around the chimney. Having mildewed drywall around one's leaky chimney is not a faked house injury. My house has that. It's real. HOWEVER, the picture of Rico pasting the drywall is all entirely wrong. It looks like it's been set up by someone who has never actually done any fucking drywall.
First problem: The drywall should be mudded slightly and then taped along the seams. Also, the visible screws should be mudded. That's your first layer of excitement and, as we can see in this image, that stuff hasn't been done. In a real drywall job, you'd do that before you went around doing anything else.
Second problem: We can SEE that the drywall in this area has all bloody well been replaced (note visible screws) and yet Rico is filling some ghastly ass hole that involves AT LEAST two sheets of drywall (improbable -- given where the screws are, there should be all kinds of studs there) and nobody would ever do that. Ever. You'd cut the fucking drywall to FIT and there is no way that you wouldn't cut down and piece so that you didn't have a huge six inch hole in the damn stuff.
Third problem: Even if you wanted to do so, you can't bridge a gap that big with drywall paste. A hole larger than a fucking doorknob beats out is a bitch to repair -- without some kind of backing, it's going to look like hell AND as thick as he's laying that down, it's going to crack like shit. Ick.
Fourth problem: The damage we see there is not a realistic drywall failure caused by inept putting-up of drywall. Generally, if you're going to fuck things up, you will have problems at corners and joints (like wall-ceiling) due to non-square buildings. The most common thing that happens is that the corners get sheared off. The second most common thing that happens is that you mash an edge trying to shove the drywall into place. Neither of those fuckups causes holes like the one depicted.
The hole depicted would have been caused by some kind of severe blow to the drywall EXCEPT that we can see it is along a seam for two sheets. You can't screw drywall to air. The screws don't pull in and you can't mud over them. You can only screw drywall to studs. There have to be wooden 2x4 studs (or other screwable material) behind the drywall... so the drywall damage depicted here would not be particularly easy to inflict. It's kind of tough to beat the shit out of drywall that is resting directly on a stud -- it'll crack and fall off but the stuff is only half an inch thick.
Just. This is not a realistic drywall injury. This is not the sort of thing you'd be doing if you were repairing a mildew issue in your house and had to put in new drywall... even if you weren't very good at it.
Also, when you are mudding drywall, you have, yes, the drywall knife (the spatula thing Rico is spreading the paste around with) but you ALSO have the rectangular thing what holds the paste you have dipped out of the paste bucket and mushed up to the proper texture with the drywall knife. It's like the serving-size container. That. There is no rectangular thing what holds the paste in this shot, which makes me wonder where the hell it is.
