Pro tip: A hotel job in Boise taught me to check the studs before anything else

I was hanging board in a hotel lobby remodel in Boise last year, and we started on a long wall. Halfway through, I realized the studs were on 19 inch centers, not 16. The foreman, Dave, had to order a whole extra lift of 12-foot sheets to avoid a ton of waste. Now I always pull a tape across a few bays before I even bring the lift in. Anyone else run into weird framing on a commercial job?

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green.mason1d ago

My old boss said checking was a waste of time.

the_river1d agoMost Upvoted

Yeah bosses like that are why I went solo. green.mason, my old foreman would skip checking the subfloor and we'd get callbacks every time. Dude thought speed was everything, but fixing his rushed jobs took way longer. Some people never learn that checking actually saves time.