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Default Wall cavity full of sheetrock pieces

On Aug 17, 8:26 pm, Paul Franklin
wrote:
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:27:40 -0400, "Percival P. Cassidy"

wrote:
I took down a couple of pieces of beat-up sheetrock and found that many
of the cavities were almost completely full of pieces of sheetrock.


Any good reason why a builder (or remodeler, perhaps) would have done
this? The only thing I can think of is that it saved them the trouble of
carting the offcuts away and perhaps paying to dump them.


I suppose they haven't been doing any harm, but they are a pest if I
want to install an old-work outlet box in a section of wall where I do
not remove the sheetrock.


Perce


You got it in 1. Easier and cheaper. The space above my basement
stairs is almost completely filled with offcuts. I discovered it when
doing some remodeling. Doesn't really hurt anything, but can be a
pain as you said. And it sure confused the stud finder I was using.

After rough calculating how many trash cans the heap would fill, I
left mine right where they were.

Paul F.


What would be the impact if there was a fire? Better that the pieces
are there, worse that the pieces are there, or no measureable impact?