I’ve been working with drywall for the past 2 weeks, building walls and soffits. I’m extremely proud of the results, but goddamn my back is killing me, cutting the panels on the ground, screwing the panels to studs (on the ground) and bending over to cut weird angles to match the extremely crooked walls our 260+ year old house has.
This is after 2 weeks, I have to idea how actual builders do this for most of their working life.
@OverSoft my back problems all started when I took up out main bedroom floor to relay it so that it squeaked and moved around less. (doing this didn't cause my back problems, just made the existing condition become known)
I then found out you can get a tool that allows you to pull floorboards whilst in a standing position. Bugger.
@tautology Yeah, I should’ve probably put a large workbench in the garden or something. The 3m x 1.20m boards are just so difficult to manoeuvre once you start building walls, so I needed to cut them in the rooms I’m enclosing.
So, on my knees, bending over the board to cut. Felt a warmish ache in my lower back and now it constantly hurts. Trying to keep the bending over to a minimum for the next week or two…
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