Remember when we all used to cut drywall with a utility knife?

Back in my first year, I was doing a big ceiling job in a Phoenix condo and the dust was just unreal. An old timer on site saw me hacking away and told me to try a RotoZip with a drywall bit. I was skeptical, but it cut the mess down by like 70% and was way faster on the long runs. Anyone still use a knife for everything, or have you switched over too?

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uma_baker8816d ago

My old boss in Tucson swore by the knife, but @emma303 has a point about the grit.

aaron_gonzalez27d ago

Got to disagree about the RotoZip being less messy. It makes a different kind of mess. The knife gives you big chunks of dust, but that zip tool throws a super fine powder that gets on everything and hangs in the air forever. I still use a knife for most straight cuts because the cleanup is simpler for me. The power tool is faster for outlets or weird shapes, but I'm not sold on it for long runs. That dust cloud is brutal.

emma30327d ago

Forget the dust for a second. That fine powder gets into the bearings of the tool itself. I killed a brand new one cutting a bunch of ceiling tiles because the grit just wore everything out from the inside. The big chunks from a knife are annoying to sweep, but they don't wreck your gear. Now I only pull out the zip if I absolutely have to, and I blow it out with compressed air immediately after.