Timeline for Tips for finding studs adjacent to sloped walls?
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| Oct 28 at 1:00 | history | bumped | CommunityBot | This question has answers that may be good or bad; the system has marked it active so that they can be reviewed. | |
| Sep 27 at 21:21 | comment | added | panjo | Got it, I'll try running the magnet along the wallboard! Thank you | |
| Sep 27 at 18:07 | answer | added | Cheery | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 27 at 15:43 | history | edited | isherwood | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 27 at 15:32 | comment | added | keshlam | Well, a magnetic stud finder will find the fasteners used to attach wallboard to the studs, which is often good enough if the construction is indeed wallboard and the plaster is indeed attached to studs. Note that in an elderly building studs may not be where you expect them to be, they plaster may not be attached to all the studs (especially if somebody was trying to isolate the wall from noise on the other side), or there may have been ad-hoc solutions such as horizontal blocking. | |
| Sep 27 at 0:55 | comment | added | DIY75 | magnetic stud finder will not find studs, for that you use the ultrasound stud finder | |
| S Sep 27 at 0:43 | review | First questions | |||
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| S Sep 27 at 0:43 | history | asked | panjo | CC BY-SA 4.0 |