Sheet Rock QUESTION

[64auto]

I am having mud put on now. The workers are heating it during the day but at night there is no heat & my door openings are only covered with plasic.
The Temp. here is around 50 during the day but at night it has been droping to around 27 degrees. Is this going to let the mud freeze and if so will it show up now so they can fix it or will it be a problem later?

 

[mhoffm911]

Probably is going to freeze - depending upon the moisture content of the mud.

If anything, you are probably going to have lots of cracks to fix later. I would not be rushing to paint if it were mine.

 

[nonhog]

Are they using "hot mud" ? If not you may want to consider keeping some sort of heat thru the night .

 

[64auto]

Will the cracks apear later or would I see them now? Also there is one spot that has a lot of mud. That is drying slow.

 

[sharpshooter]

maybe put some fans in there during the day too, help keep the air moving, keeping it a constant temperature at night (above freezing) wouldnt hurt either...

 

[Franz©]

You damn well better hold onto the check for that job until you're sure the mud ain't going to fall off the board when the place warms up. Sounds like a real quality contractor.

BTW, look at the work at and above the 7 foot above floor zone.

 

[tennsmith]

My experience has been that sheetrock and mud need to be hung/used in temperatures close to where they are going to stay. Either extreme, hot or cold, usually results in cracks or "push ups" as the temperature swings away from the extreme temp at which it was finished. Perhaps a wise thing to do would be, as someone else suggested, hold off painting until the temperature moderates.....then inspect and fill/sand any irregularities and then paint.