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Just read that the average drywall installer lifts about 10,000 pounds of material in a single house.
I saw this stat in a trade magazine at the supply house yesterday. It was in an article about job site safety and back injuries. They broke it down by sheet count and mud buckets for a standard 2,000 square foot home. Honestly, it made my own sore shoulders from yesterday make a lot more sense. Has anyone else seen numbers like this, or have a different way to figure out the physical load?
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anna_coleman6mo ago
Just did the math in my head and that's FIVE TONS. For one house. That's like lifting a small pickup truck over your head all day. No wonder my back is shot after fifteen years.
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john6486mo ago
Yeah, that math hits different when you see it written out.
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the_richard6mo ago
That number sounds about right, and it points to something bigger. We get these tidy stats for office jobs, like "sits for 8 hours," but the real physical jobs never get measured that way. Makes you wonder how many tons a mason moves or a roofer lifts in a career. The wear and tear just gets called part of the job, not a quantifiable health risk. It's a quiet kind of math that explains a lot of early retirements.
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