Had to pick between a 12-foot sheet or two 8-footers for a weird angled ceiling in a Portland attic.

I went with the single sheet, thinking it would be cleaner, but then spent an hour trying to get it up the pull-down stairs without creasing a corner, which my buddy said looked like a 'drywall origami fail'.

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charlesanderson17d ago

Drywall origami fail" is pretty funny though, was it really that big of a deal?

sandrashah17d ago

That drywall origami fail was real, charlesanderson. A creased corner on a 12-foot sheet isn't just a small bend. It ruins the paper facing, so the joint compound won't stick right later. You'll get a bubble or a crack every single time. The real fail was trying to muscle a single big sheet up attic stairs. Two 8-footers might mean an extra seam, but seams you can fix. A permanent bubble in the middle of a ceiling is way worse.