Guy who taught me the trade in 2011 said to always stretch from the longest wall, and a job in Phoenix last week made me question it

Ray Mitchell · 2026-10-17T09:40:02.993035+00:00

His voice was in my head the whole time I was fighting a hallway with a bowed subfloor, and I ended up pulling and re-stretching from the short wall instead. Does anyone here actually stick to the long wall rule on old houses with bad framing, or do you just read the room first?

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