Posts by Ted White

Once you "experience" Green Glue, you'll understand why I'd prefer you keep it...

Tell you what. You PM me your address and I'll send you one N/C.

Welcome to the forum, by the way. This entire thread describes how troweling is far from ideal. You can certainly use whatever trowel you like, however. I mentioned the 3/8" bead, which I believe is standard in all the installation...

Good luck

You can do that. Make the bottom hole smaller than the upper hole to accomplish.

I don't recall saying "because I said so." This is part of the problem buying technical items online with bad information / no support. The 50 degree temperature would be better moved to 70 to aid in compression. You want 3/8" thick...

The IB-3 brackets are spaced every 4-5 feet to connect the top plate to the joists. When framing a new wall perpendicular to the joists, you may need to install blocking between the joists to provide attachment points. The walls you...

Usually, backer boxes sort of rest on top of the first layer of drywall.

Sounds awesome Frank!

Looking at the specs, the fixture is 7 1/8" tall. If using clips and channels, that will essentially increase the cavity depth by 2 1/2", assuming double 5/8" drywall. So the fixture gets dropped by that amount. So now you're at ~11 1/2"...