Yeah, nail pops, screws do it too. My house was framed in 8/99 and the sheetrock was hung 8/2000. I moved into the house the following October and the pops started "popping" 6 months later. I thought that letting the house sit for a year before the drywall went up would help eliminate this, but boy was I wrong. Every screw or nail where they were used, on every stud and every rafter has popped- EVERY one, even in the bathroom where the drywall was screwed to strapping (ceiling). Pretty damn discouraging! I have been going room to room adding a screw next to the existing one, digging out the compound of the old one and filling the holes. I've also had to repair the corner beading mud work because of the pops. The walls are also being fully sanded, primed, sanded, primed, sanded and painted, sanded and painted a second coat. I'm on the fourth room now, the bathroom, and I've decided to try skim coating the wall to save some sanding. I wish I skim coated the other walls as I have found that in the finished product it is actually less work than sanding the original latex paint and leaves a very nice finish. I really hate thinking about moving to each successive room and I'm always ready to say F*** IT!!!, but when that second coat of paint rolls out, wow it really looks great and I get enthusiasm again to move on. BTW, the primer I'm using is SW wall and wood primer, and the finish paint has been Duration so far, but the next room will be their Emerald line which seems to be a step up from Duration. I really, really, like the way the paint lays down and how durable it has been for the other rooms. One thing that I have done in the addition I added and hung the drywall in, was to use a full bead of construction adhesive on every stud and rafter. Guess what, ten years later and no pops, no cracks!
