Learn how to remove sheetrock with less mess and minimize collateral damage with some great pro tips and a few ‘surgical’ tools. Watch Master Carpenter Matt Jackson ‘surgically’ remove full sheets of old sheetrock from a wall during a Master Bath Suite remodel project without creating billowing clouds of dust or buckets of crumbs. BTW This is by far THE BEST way to remove sheetrock that is fastened to metal studs with screws! A sharp long-handled knife, a special powerful magnet, a bit of ‘magnetic dirt’ and a sharp tip in a fast cordless drill allow professional extraction of drywall… a much more professional approach than beating holes into the wall and tearing the sheetrock off in fist-sized pieces! Use what you learn here at Next Level Carpentry to work efficiently and effectively for better results on your DIY projects.
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CRL 13″ long handled knife:
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Wicked Bad Long Knife Blades:
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Rack-a-Tiers Studball Magnet: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JV3JNE6/?ref=idea_lv_dp_
Slide Hammer Nail Puller:
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Hive Tool ‘Surgical’ Prybar:
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My favorite jobsite utility knife:
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So good to see this video and listen to the pros who have commented here in clear rejection of all the tv shows that start with swinging a sledgehammer. It's clear, even to most of us non-professionals, that so much of the demo work on tv shows is done for dramatic affect. My favorite is the show where the bozo husband, you know the one where the wife is the queen of shiplap and sliding barn doors inside a house, loves to run through wall board or kick it down with his feet as his go-to method for demolition. When these come on I just envision all the job site safety managers rolling there eyes along with the rest of the sane audience.
Fascinating, watching you work.
At first I wasn't sold on this. Then I thought about how many trips to the garbage with torn off pieces, and the even smaller bits that have to be bagged and then the dust cleanup. Not sure if this method would be net slower for me as a one man operation. As dust control, and keeping my space as clean as possible, are important, im sold. I also think it shows some professionalism to the client.
Is better a negative air machine set on negative mode to control the dust and built containment on work área and is more profesional and faster
making it look easy...
BRILLIANT!! Wish I saw this before my sheetrock removal project … needless to say, I ended up with buckets of dust and debris :-( I am ordering the magnet now for the next time I have to do this kind of job. Thank you for making this video!!!
Nice clean way of removing drywall, but honestly I know that would have caused a bit of dust. However I would had that drywall removed 5-6 times in the amount of time it took you.
Oh hell thats a NEW house! Surprised to see a remodel so soon. Just based on the color of the studs, I'd probably say 80s-90s depending on local weather.
Really helpful especially for the DYI folks! Subscribing now!!!