The Board Mate: Installing Drywall

[Lastbreath187]

Lol, what a fucken waste of time. Stupid clips..... Just nail the fucken thing in looser

[drywallguy63]

@drywallguy63 techparts4U...sorry

[LOVEROXY25]

Where can I buy a boardmate or where can I find it for a cheap price?

[aaron83301]

Any drywall hanger can hang lids without a problem, and if you are just doing a little and think you want to learn... you dont.

[mundenez]

I hope you didn't spend a lot of money on manufacture of this as it can easily be replaced with any piece of timber with screwholes in it. If you'd made it to automatically hold onto rafters the product would be attractive but there is no real advantage of this over a piece of timber.

[techparts4U]

Hi Mundenez,

we guess that you have little or no experience with pieces of timber with holes in them or indeed drywall installation.

Wood demonstrates none of the mechanical strength of our extruded aluminum neither does it give the ability to simply slide drywall into position. A piece of drywall is heavy and cumbersome and falling from an height will cause serious injury.

We really appreciate good positive feedback that may lead to improvements in the product.

Thanks anyway

[mundenez]

On the contrary its because I do install a lot of drywall that I know about this. You're not the first people in the world to think of securing a "third hand" to the rafter before you put up the drywall, but obviously you're the first company to patent the idea.

You're right about timber not being as strong, but what we as builders are interested in is a solution to a problem not a piece of aluminium capable of holding 200Kgs to hold a 30kg board. Timber will do just fine.

[techparts4U]

Hi again Mundenez,

if you are interested in a solution to the problem we fail to understand why you are not interested in our solution.

Professional drywall installers all indicate the size and weight of aluminum and the ability to readily introduce the drywall sheet edge over the ergonomically designed grip/angled edge are a major advantage. We assume that you have lots of room in your tool pouch for pieces of wood, pros prefer a lightweight none splintering piece of lightweight aluminum.

[dracowing14]

@techparts4U i would have to agree with both of you on this point, 1 being that you could just as easily use a piece of material laying around, in mundenez case you could use wood, or in my case on commercial jobs there is plenty of steel laying around, and even on another note if my boss saw me using something like this he would fire me on the spot, besides this would take more time then 2 regular guys just throwing sheets up.