Took me 6 hours to hang a single 12-foot board because I tried to 'save time' by skipping c-channel

Thought I could muscle through a curved hallway ceiling solo without those metal hat channels and ended up fighting the bow for 5 hours before driving to the supply house. Has anyone else wasted an entire day trying to finesse a problem that a $15 piece of track would've fixed in 20 minutes?

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elliotr3927d ago

@loganburns you call em hat channels and I'll call em c-channels but we both know what they're for, same as how I spent a whole afternoon leveling a door frame with a hammer before someone asked why I didn't just buy shims.

loganburns27d ago

Tried to 'save time' by skipping c-channel" - man, that's rough but I gotta gently push back on calling them c-channel. Those are actually furring channel or hat channel, not c-channel. C-channel is that U-shaped stuff for framing or suspending things. Easy mix up though, I've done it myself more than once. I feel your pain on the curved hallway though. I made the same mistake trying to hang sheetrock on a vaulted ceiling once. Thought I could just sister some 2x4s and make it work. Three hours of cussing later I was at the supply house too. The thing is, those metal channels are designed specifically for this kind of bowing and flex. They distribute the load way better than wood can. And yeah, fifteen bucks is nothing compared to the time and frustration you saved yourself in the long run. Live and learn, right?