Timeline for What are these row of bumps along my drywall near the ceiling?
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| Dec 10, 2022 at 16:00 | comment | added | Chris Parker | As far as how many there are - any number of things can happen while working on the job. Perhaps there was something blocking the wall there, and the dry wall hanger had to reach at an awkward angle. It may be the person didn't have a good way to tell what they were doing, so they just put enough nails so nobody could argue that there were too few. | |
| Dec 10, 2022 at 15:57 | comment | added | Chris Parker | We always knew them as nail "poppers". That crackling and snapping you hear in your house on a cold evening after a warm day - that's your house settling. That setting can cause nails to work out of the wood just a bit. My guess is that's what you're seeing here. If this were my house, I'd use a center punch type tool and start by tapping them very lightly to see if there's any resistance. If not, pull them out entirely and patch the remaining hole. If so, tap them further in this time, they may not work out again. If they pop again later, replace them with screws. | |
| Dec 9, 2022 at 13:38 | comment | added | isherwood | Fair-ish point, but I was clearly keying off the usage in this answer. | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 21:35 | comment | added | Joshua Taylor | I think there might be confusion about the meaning of "Drywall nails really don't ever work out." "to work out" can mean "to be successful", or in the case of fasteners, can mean "to gradually become unfastened." I think isherwood meant that "if they are nails, they probably missed the framing, because nails [that hit their target] rarely work themselves out of the material they're lodged in." and that ruskes read it as "drywall nails are rarely successful." I may be misreading, of course. | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 21:10 | comment | added | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | @isherwood If they're not solidly in wood they should be easy to pull out. If they are fairly solid in wood then that is not so easy. If I were a cheap painter (e.g., paint the whole house between rentals for a flat, low, rate) and I found those, I'd give them a whack and paint over them and hope for the best. And then they'd likely pop back out just a drop as the house settles...but if not enough to break through the paint then this is the result. Just a hunch though. | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 19:33 | comment | added | isherwood | I didn't upvote because of the implication that it's good practice to "bang them back in". If they are nail pops (for whatever reason). banging them back in is just a recipe for recurrence. They should be removed. | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 19:29 | comment | added | DIY75 |
Nonsense. Nails are just fine (if they hit framing, which these probably haven't). Drywall was installed for decades with nails, and for decades after that with nails just on the edges (to minimize blowout). They aren't inherently problematic. EOQ @isherwood
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| Dec 8, 2022 at 17:21 | comment | added | isherwood | More likely they missed the framing completely. Drywall nails really don't ever work out. | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 16:45 | comment | added | Glen Yates | Nail pops is the technical term for this. | |
| Dec 8, 2022 at 5:07 | vote | accept | mrQWERTY | ||
| Dec 8, 2022 at 4:14 | history | edited | brhans | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 8, 2022 at 3:33 | history | answered | manassehkatz-Moving 2 Codidact | CC BY-SA 4.0 |