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GC in Nashville saw my plywood clips and said 'you must hate your back', he was right
I was hanging drywall in a 3,200 sq ft build outside Nashville last month when the GC walked by and noticed I was still using nails on the ceiling runs. He told me his crew switched to screws and clips after a guy on his old job in Knoxville spent 6 weeks out with a shoulder injury. How many of you are still nailing ceilings or have you all moved to screws?
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rowanharris14d ago
The thing people miss about this whole nail vs screw debate is liability. You nail a ceiling and it sags or a sheet pulls loose in two years, the homeowner calls the builder, the builder calls the insurance guy, and suddenly everybody's pointing fingers at who hung it and what they used. Once you switch to screws and clips you've got a paper trail that says you did it the modern way, and that Matters when lawyers get involved. I've seen one claim in Franklin over a bathroom ceiling that cost more in legal fees than the whole room was worth. Nobody talks about that part because it's not about your back at all, it's about keeping your name off a lawsuit. My old boss made that switch years ago and he never once mentioned his shoulder.
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