Greg Peterson
03-07-2010, 11:41 AM
After adding an central vac inlet I had to replace a small section of sheet rock. I did my measurements and laid the removed section on top of the new sheet to trace the outline and the existing cutout for the light switch. All I had to do was add six inches to the bottom portion of the new piece and add a cutout for the inlet. Piece of cake.
Everything went according to the Peterson rule. The piece fit perfectly. The cutout for the inlet was exactly were it was suppose to be IF I wanted to install the sheet rock backwards.
The sheet I brought home was laying on the saw horses face down so I laid my template face down and traced it out. But when it came to triangulating the location for the cutout for the vac inlet, because the template was upside down, I should have transposed the measurements from the actual corner my measurements were based on rather than the corner nearest me. Oops.
Back to the store, another sheet, this time face up on the saw horses, laid the template on top, traced it out, measured the vac inlet cutout from the correct corner, and viola!, almost perfect. Man, I tell you it only took me a couple of minutes to prep the sheet. I was feeling pretty confident. A fleeting sensation I am all to familiar with. I should have recognized this.
The only problem was that I had just used the original template, but I forgot to add six inches to the bottom of the sheet. Doooh!
I couldn't bring myself to go back to the store and face the same checker a third time. Hopefully he isn't working today. :o
Everything went according to the Peterson rule. The piece fit perfectly. The cutout for the inlet was exactly were it was suppose to be IF I wanted to install the sheet rock backwards.
The sheet I brought home was laying on the saw horses face down so I laid my template face down and traced it out. But when it came to triangulating the location for the cutout for the vac inlet, because the template was upside down, I should have transposed the measurements from the actual corner my measurements were based on rather than the corner nearest me. Oops.
Back to the store, another sheet, this time face up on the saw horses, laid the template on top, traced it out, measured the vac inlet cutout from the correct corner, and viola!, almost perfect. Man, I tell you it only took me a couple of minutes to prep the sheet. I was feeling pretty confident. A fleeting sensation I am all to familiar with. I should have recognized this.
The only problem was that I had just used the original template, but I forgot to add six inches to the bottom of the sheet. Doooh!
I couldn't bring myself to go back to the store and face the same checker a third time. Hopefully he isn't working today. :o