OT: Best Stud Locator?

I know women like that. Eventually they grow up and become monogamous.

Is this for servicing your wife?

Are Drywall and Stucco names of escort agencies?

:-)

He need a Young Buck Sensor.

didn't know you were that type!

Jamie

I guess I need to reword this request... all the juveniles are diverting attention from the original intent :-(

Actually I need an accurate locator for those _rafters_ in the ceiling so I can hang a ladder hoist. ...Jim Thompson

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The one miso recomends, its an actual stud finder, not a nail finder has wire warning too.

Cheers

I guess I need to reword this request... all the juveniles are diverting attention from the original intent :-(

Actually I need an accurate locator for those _joists_ in the wall framing so I can hang some heavy tools. ...Jim Thompson

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Anyone have experience with this one...

...Jim Thompson

There, 3 in 1 tool, take's care of all your needs and it cheap, too!

Jamie

Check the reviews, do you have a foil vapor barrier on the insulation? Seems to cause problems.

Cheers

Good point. This house... they even used a foil barrier on the roof plywood! ...Jim Thompson

That thermal barrier reduces attic temperatures quite a bit!

Cheers

The electric bill here is running about 30% of that of the previous house. ...Jim Thompson

I own a zircon and know the people while in the Bay Area. They generally make good products.

I had planned on looking through plaster/lath to find studs, never got it to work well, kept missing and had false positives and false negatives, just didn't work well for me.

Best was a simple metal detector to find all the nails. $2.00 for a little magnet that spun freely inside a plastic partially transparent cylinder. I think Home Depot carries. Both are now in storage, so recently I used a 'stack' of neodynium magnets. But this is new construction and the skim coats aren't that thick, thus often the magnets actually stuck to the walls. use a magnet out of a defunct microwave.

foil's going to mess with any stud finders that work by capacitance.

using a neodmyium manget to find the nails/screws will tell you where the fixers thought the studs were

I hear there's an app called "Grinder"

Let us know how you get on.

I'm in an old building and had to locate rafters though plaster and lathe. There was no way a studfinder or banging on stuff was going to work up there. Even pressing up to see where things flexed was useless. I just drilled about a dozen holes with a #58 drill bit to keep the damage down. Patching only took a few minutes. Eventually you can tell lathe from plaster from rough hewn lumber from the dust falling into your eyes.

Yep. I've been known to drill "test" holes ;-) ...Jim Thompson

My method is to knock on the ceiling until I think I'm close, then I push a sewing needle in, if I hit wood, I move 1/2 inch and try again. I use 1/2 the distance idea after that. I do this until I know both edges of the stud or joist. I usually hold the sewing needle in a small pair of vice grips, makes it easy in and out. Any extra holes are small enough that I don't concern myself about them. This has worked well a dozen times in my drywall made walls. Oh you want a Stud Locator, sorry haven't used one for 30 years. Mikek