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>>2967277
What's that, cheap Chinese garbage is cheap Chinese garbage? Fuck son, what's the world coming to when the when some fucking plastic dogshit can't be trusted to be accurate. Get a cast iron level like picture related and learn how to use it.

How does sending electricity through the bubble give you more accurate readings?

How do you retards not know that's a stud finder?

>>2967288
A plastic stud finder? Just use a magnet.

>>2967288
Because all most of us have to do to find a stud is look in a mirror

>>2967289
A magnet? Just tap on the wall with your knuckle and listen to the sound difference.

>>2967288
more roblox zoomers find diy every day

>>2967293
Sound difference? Just eyeball a multiple of 16" spans from the edge.

>>2967277
They can read false positives and false negatives because of other material in the wall. A plumbing drain or vent looks like a stud. So can a gas line. If there's blocking in the wall, the finder won't light up correctly.

Use the finder until you hit what looks like a good vertical 1.5". Then use layout to verify that there are repetition hits on 16" or 24" intervals. If you need to drill somewhere and you're unsure, you can stop at 1/2" and look behind the drywall.

>>2967302
>assuming the 16" starts at the edge
>assuming your house is built on 16" studs

>>2967310
>not being able to see through walls and just see where studs are

>>2967288
Because a 1" spherical magnet is the only stud finder that's worth a shit. Also, stabila is the only company that makes levels worth buying.

>>2967288
Sorry I don't have cardboard walls.

>>2967288
I have plank walls. You can just look at where the nails are

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>>2967277
Return to tradition.
t. mounts TVs on a weekly basis

>use magnets
With this I have found nails in studs and the nails are commonly so fucked to one side of the stud from retarded construction that mounts have torn out of the walls. Also have experienced finding the nail and up 2 feet from that where the mount needs to go the stud is so warped one direction the magnet is useless.
>use stud finders
Never work for shit
>make sure it's on intervals
The last 3 places I worked on the studs were at 14, 15.5, 16, 13, a total fucking whatever spacing.

None of this shit works since third worlders started building

>>2967286
ok moron. he's not talking about the level. that's a stud finder in OP's pic.

>>2967289
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>>2967352
there's no reason that any of you needed to respond. retards.

>>2967289
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>>2967342
magnets and knocking are not reliable. when I took down the old cabinets in my home who ever put them up located the studs by smashing holes in the wall until they hit one. fucking idiot. I wish I had taken a picture of it before fixing the holes.

>>2967277
I have one similar to that, it works reasonably well on sheet rock, mine has an wiring sensor in it that finds wires in walls that I verified have no wires at all. I have looked in to stud sensors and I have not seen any that work reliably and accurately. magnets are shit for finding studs because it relies on who ever putting the screw or nail in having put it in the center of the stud which rarely happens. knocking is also mostly pointless it gets you withing an inch or so.

the way I use my stud sensor is I check for studs for several feet in each direction, put up post it notes and mark what the stud sensor says are studs, then measure to see if they are reasonably close to 16" on center before making a test hole.

I have a wall in my house that I could not find a stud where one was supposed to be. This wall was an unaccounted for space off the side of my walk in closet. I opened the wall up and installed an access panel in to that space. I found it was being used to run AC from the air handler downstairs to above the kitchen, and other vents. I found I had a ton of wasted space in there. I also found that the wall where I could not find a stud did not have one where it should have been (not a load bearing wall).

>>2967398
I'm advocating against gypsum board as a standard building material

>>2967422
Based. We need to normalize pre stressed reinforced concrete as the go to wall material.

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>>2967430
I approve

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>>2967432
His apartments are literally saving lives in Ukraine.

>>2967277
I have the basic $22 Franklin one and it's worked well so far. My house is a 1990 one-off build in a heavily white area though, so it's actually put together well.

>>2967286
Bubbles not broken retard

>>2967451
how does falling apart after one hit of a iranian discount cruise "missile" "saving lives"?

>>2967401
Magnets are the only reliable way you retard. Find the screws holding up the paneling/drywall.

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The house I used to live in and some of the rooms where I work have plaster walls. Magnets don't work when there aren't any screws just under the paint. I'm stuck either knocking and accepting that I'm probably going to miss the first 1-3 tries, or using a decent stud finder.

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>>2967899
Operator error. You were not using a strong enough magnet. Old hard drive magnets (older the better) are good for plaster. If it is really thick you should use an even more powerful magnet. The kind with warning labels about being able to crush fingers and disrupt pacemakers. You know the kind. Where if two of them come together they are now one magnet. That is if the impact doesn't cause them to explode like a hand grenade.

Would a thermal camera and a heat gun work?

>>2967849
your theory falls down at the fact that tradies are retards that can't put a nail center to save their retard lives.

>>2967817
If instead of reinforced concrete walls the apartments were made of sticks and glue entire residential buildings would have collapsed. They are doing exceptionally well and only taking one or two casualties per hit.

>>2967849
pot calls kettle black.

>>2968001
they won't rebuild them that way.

>>2967945
I was just thinking an infrared camera and a squirt bottle

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>>2967302
Eyeballing? Just use your extrasensory autist gnostic knowledge of esoteric forbidden home construction deeplore to commune through the spirit realm and contact the undead builders who built the original home, allowing you to see through the walls, through the very eyes of those since past, literally becoming one with the house and all who worked on it, simultaneously being and not being, all within the confines of the temporal accords set into stone centuries into the future (technically, this is your past from my non-linear perspective) (all things are ending soon)

the pendulum laser levels are down to like 35 to 40 dollars its awesome
just get one of them
theyre fun

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>>2967277
There has to be better tech out there, I've been wanting to design something after trying picrel and it failed too. Really annoying these fuckers can get away with selling studfinders across the whole industry that don't work worth jack shit