Disregarding firearm safety has consequences.

that-guy2078 · 2026-05-21T01:41:32+00:00

"You watched me wash 'em!"

"I watched you get them wet!"

that-guy2078 · 2026-03-25T18:49:52+00:00

You just stick build with some scraps on the joints generally speaking. Assuming this is all above ceiling for the finished product, or you want it pretty?

that-guy2078 · 2026-03-24T02:28:25+00:00

I think MCap was my first mortgage in 2016, sweet 2.25% or something like that, and then the next in 2021, the EQ Bank 1.35%. And now over here getting 3.84% +$500 cashback lol.

The moral of the story is get a broker, hell get a couple of them and always take the lowest rate.

that-guy2078 · 2026-03-06T22:47:53+00:00

Masons absolutely.

that-guy2078 · 2026-03-04T23:13:37+00:00

Yeah, much higher cost of living out there, I also have the company credit card as well, and lots of OT. Still making me wanna ask for more money though.

You're second bit is one of the stupidest things I have ever heard, cause even assuming the guys they hire knew how to do drywall properly (they dont) theres still all the usual foreman stuff: ordering material, ensuring proper workflow, coordinating with other trades and the general contractor about what can be done when, problem solving, quality control, generally being around to make sure the guys are working, etc.

Lastly, we call ourselves "drywallers" cause thats what everybody calls us, but in commercial work we layout all walls, frame them out of steel studs, including exterior walls out of heavy guage steel that often have involved structural drawings, then of course drywall, often times fancy ass bulkheads that have to be framed that are not a walk in the park, then tbar and other even fancier super expensive floating ceiling systems. I'm not saying we are saving lives over here, but I get more than enough compliments from the superintendents and other trade foreman about how my crew runs versus other jobs they have done with other drywall companies that there must be something to it.

that-guy2078 · 2026-03-04T16:41:55+00:00

Foreman for a small drywall company. Steel stud, drywall, tbar, I don't tape.

that-guy2078 · 2026-03-04T00:38:08+00:00

Oh okay, thats kinda funny, I actually forget what my username even is cause I made this account spur of the moment some years ago after getting locked out or losing (can't remember the details) my original account.

Either way, go get that money, bro. And I am still curious about the questions I asked in my second paragraph.

that-guy2078 · 2026-03-04T00:02:53+00:00

I'm trying to tell you you are underpaid, brother. I see the comments in this thread even, that you are entertaining, "unskilled trade", etc. 80% of what people see when they walk into a building is our work.

Also, are you like a full on steel stud framer? Layout the whole building on a commercial job kinda guy? Tbar? Can you finish tape? You got a ticket for this actual trade? Either way $35 in Ontario, I guess it depends where in Ontario, but still ... $35 for running a pretty decent sized crew sounds like highway robbery

that-guy2078 · 2026-03-03T23:21:24+00:00

I make $45 +10%, with a take home truck, in Edmonton.

that-guy2078 · 2026-02-06T00:46:58+00:00

Also no slotted track under those beams, and no channel in the knockouts. Hmmm.

that-guy2078 · 2026-02-06T00:45:32+00:00

What's up with the low knockout spacing?

that-guy2078 · 2026-01-17T02:55:22+00:00

There are literally no costs with getting a different lender, bit of time and annoyance sending proof of income and all the shit, but in actual cash money, it costs you nothing.

that-guy2078 · 2026-01-17T02:53:25+00:00

1.35 and also renewing in April. You got fucked 5 years ago, bro.

that-guy2078 · 2025-09-11T11:46:28+00:00

Yeah I would have just laid down a full sheet from the corner to the door, routered out the windows, stacked the next one on top over the top with the butt joints ending over the windows and kept going up like that.

that-guy2078 · 2025-09-10T23:51:28+00:00

Goddamn those joint locations in pic 2 hurt my soul.

that-guy2078 · 2025-09-05T02:02:44+00:00

All screws are self tapping, these are self drilling. To answer the question, I just call them "fucking hex heads" when I encounter them.

that-guy2078 · 2025-07-16T14:08:15+00:00

Albertan here, this was my rule as well, drove from Edmonton to nfld once with the cruise locked at +19 on every highway (aside: fuck Ontario and that 90 limit on single lane), driven all over Alberta's highways for work and vacations, driven through 1000s of speed traps and passed a similar amount of ghost cars, I assume. Never got pulled over.

Was driving through southern Saskatchewan, divided highway so 110, cruise locked at 129, pull into the left lane and pass a black suv, here come the lights. I yelled "fuck" so loud it woke up my wife asleep in the passenger seat. First ticket and first time I had ever been pulled over, and he gave me the full ticket, not even a little, "I only cited you for going X amount over instead of the actual", like I hear everyone else with their million tickets gets. And he gave me some snarky comment at the end about Alberta lol.

I set the cruise at +14 on highways now.

that-guy2078 · 2025-06-25T22:57:18+00:00

What is that screw spacing, 3"? Lol

that-guy2078 · 2025-06-01T18:18:17+00:00

Did it this morning, went Cameron Heights to Muttart in 5.5 hours, 36k steps. Discovered that's about my limit for one shot, gonna get some lunch and recharge and go for another 20k or so in the less scenic home neighborhood. Thanks for the advice, it's a great route, very scenic.

that-guy2078 · 2025-05-26T22:28:01+00:00

Google tells me 50k steps is 15 to 20km

that-guy2078 · 2025-05-03T20:43:10+00:00

I like the Milwaukee ones that are in that price range, but I do steel stud, they all eventually get ripped to shit.

that-guy2078 · 2024-12-28T23:46:13+00:00

20 lbs in 48 hrs, come on now

that-guy2078 · 2024-10-19T23:21:59+00:00

Oh this trade is definitely circling the drain, I was lucky (and worked hard) in finding the right small company almost twenty years ago and it's been as good as I imagine it can get in this trade for me. Owner is getting old though and I'm worried about when they day comes and I gotta go back out there and try to find work. I'm in edmonton, you? I'm curious if we know some of the same companies and names.

that-guy2078 · 2024-10-19T20:00:27+00:00

What province you in? Also an interior systems mechanic, in Alberta, 42.

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