Noticed a weird hump in a ceiling at a Home Depot in Austin last week

I was grabbing some 5/8 sheetrock at the Home Depot on Slaughter Lane and saw the ceiling in the storage aisle had this long, smooth hump running along a seam. It looked like someone tried to tape and mud over a big dip without sanding it flat first. Has anyone else seen stuff like that in big box stores and wondered if it was just rushed work or something else?

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evan_grant701d ago

Bet it's just vapor barrier sagging, drywall work is fine.

paulnguyen1d ago

Yeah, I had a spot in my garage where the vapor barrier was sagging exactly like that. Drywall looked perfect from the front but you could feel it bowing when you tapped it. I cut a small access hole behind where the sag was, pushed the vapor barrier back up against the studs, and stapled it tight. Patched the hole with a scrap piece of drywall and some mud, sanded it smooth, and you literally couldn't tell after I painted. Took me maybe an hour tops and saved me from having to rip out the whole sheet.