Had a day last week where every single screw strip out on me

I was doing a ceiling job out in Bakersfield, nothing fancy, just 5/8 fire code on a garage. But man, every third screw just wouldnt grab right. Tried my collated gun, tried my regular screw gun, even tried hand driving a few. Ended up having to pull like 40 screws and redo them. What kinda drywall you guys use that gives you the least screw popping?

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charlie26925d ago

Buddy of mine had the same thing happen with some cheap board from a lumber yard closeout sale.

lee.casey25d ago

Gotta be honest man, that sounds like a frustrating day but maybe a little overblown lol. Screws stripping out that often usually means the gun's clutch is set wrong or you're hitting steel studs with a coarse thread screw. Or your drywall was damp or something. I've done ceiling jobs where the board had a weird outer layer that just crushed before the screw bit in. But pulling 40 screws seems like overkill unless they were actually spinning and not holding.