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Originally Posted by DCUNY
We purchased a pre-owned designer house and I working to attach items to an inside wall. I used a stud finder to locate the stud and started drilling. Instead of steady resistance and the drill bit drilling deeper as I added pressure, it seemed to drill a while and then quickly go through. Are these metal studs?
On outside walls it felt like wood studs, but I haven’t done much yet on outside walls.
Any insights would be appreciated as I have not seen how they actually build houses in the Villages.
Thanks in advance.
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As others have said, this is a steel stud. I found that out in my house built in 2002. I was going to hang a TV on the wall and had a hard time drilling through it. I thought I was drilling through ductwork so I cut a piece of the drywall out to take a look what was behind it. Sure enough, steel stud. I used the toggle anchors mentioned by the village tinker to hang the TV. They worked pretty good once you know how to install them.
The thing that irritates me more than anything about the walls is the orange peel texture. They don't do this up north where I come from. I don't like the look of it at all but it's too much work to get rid of it. Trying to do repairs to a wall Is a major pain. I tried a can of DEP orange peel (like 40 bucks) and it kept clogging on me, not to mention it didn't go very far.