Ultradog MN
Well-known Member
- Location
- Twin Cities
I hang a couple hundred sheets of drywall
a year. Not a BTO by any means but enough
to know what I'm doing with the stuff.
About all you can buy at Home Depot
anymore is the new Ultralight stuff from
USG - Sheetrock Brand.
No more.
They changed the formula of the gypsum
mix.
Whipped it up so it's porus and thus
significantly lighter. Probably added some
kind of a hardener to it to harden it.
The hardener made it brittle. It fractures
easily. When you screw into a corner the
corner fractures off easily.
The porosity causes the screw head to
puncture through the paper so it loses
most of it's holding power. Make a cutout
like for around a window and the remaining
part of the sheet will shatter as you try
to hang it.
Because it's so brittle if someone
happenens to lean against the wall between
the studs it will crack much easier than
the regular rock. This will happen even
years down the road.
I wrote to them about it on their contact
page about it 3 weeks ago. Never heard
back.
Wrote to them again a week ago. Nothing.
So now I'm going to put the word out.
Avoid using the Ultralight.
Specify to your contractor that you do not
want it used in your home.
It is an inferior product and I suspect
there will be class action lawsuits over
it.
Georgia Pacific still makes the regular
stuff. They sell it at Menards and many
other places.
No more Ultralight Sheetrock brand drywall
for me!
a year. Not a BTO by any means but enough
to know what I'm doing with the stuff.
About all you can buy at Home Depot
anymore is the new Ultralight stuff from
USG - Sheetrock Brand.
No more.
They changed the formula of the gypsum
mix.
Whipped it up so it's porus and thus
significantly lighter. Probably added some
kind of a hardener to it to harden it.
The hardener made it brittle. It fractures
easily. When you screw into a corner the
corner fractures off easily.
The porosity causes the screw head to
puncture through the paper so it loses
most of it's holding power. Make a cutout
like for around a window and the remaining
part of the sheet will shatter as you try
to hang it.
Because it's so brittle if someone
happenens to lean against the wall between
the studs it will crack much easier than
the regular rock. This will happen even
years down the road.
I wrote to them about it on their contact
page about it 3 weeks ago. Never heard
back.
Wrote to them again a week ago. Nothing.
So now I'm going to put the word out.
Avoid using the Ultralight.
Specify to your contractor that you do not
want it used in your home.
It is an inferior product and I suspect
there will be class action lawsuits over
it.
Georgia Pacific still makes the regular
stuff. They sell it at Menards and many
other places.
No more Ultralight Sheetrock brand drywall
for me!