I was sceptical about the blocks at first but when I saw how they worked I realized you are a genius, great video.

Thanks Mike for sharing! I am in the middle of nowhere, building my own house by myself, and without any chance of renting or buying a lift. Your video will allow me to sleep well tonight and get going tomorrow morning. Great tips!

I knew KZfaq would help. I've done tons of sheetrock and was thinking I'd need to rent a sheetrock lift to do the ceiling in my garage with 5/8th. This idea is simple, easy to implement and will save me the cost of a rental lift. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this out there. Much appreciated.

Great tips and methods; really appreciate you taking the time to make the video. Also- almost 6 years since you made this and it's still helping folks- good on you!

Mike, thanks for sharing, you did me a great favor by publishing this video. I think your ideas are fantastic, and i will be using the wood and plumb bob this week on a ten foot ceiling. Thanks and God bless Glenn

You, sir, are a genius! This is going to make my life SO much easier! I just bought a house that they built a master bedroom/bath onto, got the framing and electrical done, sheetrock bought...and then quit. Guess who gets to finish up? :)

I've hung a lot of sheetrock (more than I ever really wanted to) and lots of times, worked alone. Wish I'd have thought of this decades ago! Brilliant.

This is what’s so great about KZfaq. Decades of experience shared with all us beginners. Thanks!

Very smart, very useful, very concise video. Thank you! Happy New Year!

BUILDING MY OWN HOUSE , BY MYSELF , IM IMPRESSED BY THIS GREAT JOB , GOD BLESS THE 2 x 4

The plum bob trick in addition to the drywall holding trick is truly Genius! THANK YOU for sharing!

YOU ARE THE MAN !!! Thank you for your professionalism YOU REALLY HELPED ME ON MY JOB TODAY 👍👍👍👍👍

i think you are a freaking genius... Obviously a very hard word working man ...I salute you and bid you much respect!!!thanks I'll be watching

Nice work Mike. One suggestion: always go in a counter-clockwise direction with the roto-zip, it's much easier to keep the blade tight to the box.

I've got a garage to fully board tomorrow and you have just saves me a LOT of time and energy. He is a genius

I am very impressed. I couldn't sleep last night thinking how to do high garage ceiling myself. I don't have a helper, not sheetrock lifter or anything , so I came here to say God bless you Mike. Thank you for shering this helpful video.

Thanks Mike. I am just about to install 20 sheets on a ceiling by myself. I really liked the plumb bob solution for my down-lights.

Have to admit, I was nervous the whole time waiting for those two screws to give way and drop that board. Nice work gettin' 'er done without any assistance!

Thanks, been fighting a board for about 45 min, came to you tube, you were the first video. Watched and done in about 10 minutes less the frustration. Also like the Roto zip trick. Cheers

Awesome instructional video! No crazy music and boring us to death setting screws. I got a workshop to do and this definitely helps.

Nice video, and really smart way to do it when there is no help around. Thanks for sharing.

This is genius! Thanks for sharing!

Of all my years of sheet rocking I have never come across such good ideas using only simple construction materials such as 2x4s and strips of ply wood. Great video

YOU SAVED MY LIFE. I was gonna buy a drywall lift, and all sorts of stuff. THANK you for this!!

Those are some excellent tips, thanks for sharing!!

Thanks! The plum bob idea is awesome!

WOW! I'm planning to remodel a garage and this will help a lot. Thanks so much for sharing.

You, ve just saved me oodles of trouble on tomorrow`s job...Thank you!

7-23-2016 Thanks much. I've been staring at the insulation batting in my ceiling for 30 years wondering how to put up dry wall. Now I can do this with your method. Thanks !

Thank you, Mike. This helped me.

Great video. I had a bunch of crazy ideas for when I do my garage but this is amazingly simple.

Thank you, Mike. Like many here I too was searching for the "how to do this on my own" method and your video just confirmed that I wasn't far off. The plumb approach, however; that's a good one.

Dang. I wish I had known about the plumb bob trick today! I measured three times before I put the sheet up then measured three times before cutting the hole . . . and missed by a couple of inches! Damn crooked eye! lol

You clever guy. ThanKs ...that's a BIG help.

Genius idea with the turning block to hold the other end.. I enjoy youtube for the brilliant people with great ideas. Mike, you nailed it!!!

I'm glad to see this as I am getting ready to drywall a ceiling my self. Thanks for posting.

your idea of finding the light fittings is good i use a touch on on floor facing the ceilng or if its on wall i use torch again or lazer beam great idea for holding drywall in place

Like the idea with the plumb bob.

I was wondering how I would hang my ceiling by my self when I came across this video. Great idea, and it worked for me, best of all, I didn't have to bother my friends for help. Thanks for helping by sharing your ideas.

Thanks, Mike. Although I've been using this method for some years, the overlapping plywood is a great new idea. Thanks again for sharing.

That sheet would have fallen and cracked in 3 pieces if that was me doing that. Great job.

Great minds think alike. I must have hung a thousand sheets wallboard this way.

I'm 58 and just goes to show your never to old to learn. Now I can do my own lid tommorw. Thank you.

Mike thanks a lot for the great and useful tips. I'm a "do it myselfer" and this will definitely safe me the hassle of finder a helper or paying for something I can't afford or can do myself now thanks to you.

Wile E. Coyote got nothing on you my friend; you rock man! 👍🏻😎

Use a rare earth magnet to find boxes. Works great.

Thank you SO much! After messing with trying to do a template for the three boxes in our ceiling we did your method and had the piece of drywall up pretty quickly considering that we had to cut the holes out by hand. Excellent tips!!

Wow, I never thought about it. I am a do it yourself person and appreciate your brilliant ideas!! Thank you Mike.

nice techniques. shouldn't you stagger ceiling joints though (brick pattern)?

I just never have the time to payback someone who helps me. We all will need help from someone but I never want it to be until I really need it. Mike

Mike, see this is one of the reasons why we love the Internet. I watched your video just now and I can see your way is much easier than how we have been doing it. Thanks so much for the help. Thanks so much for sharing.

Nice job with the blocking and I like your plumb-bob trick for your electrical boxes. I chose to by an inexpensive drywall lift to hang the ceilings. I work too slow to rent one. To mark ceiling boxes, after lifting the boards into place, I crawled on top of the rafters and outlined the boxes with a pencil, took the drywall down, cut it and reinstalled it. For wall boxes, we put bright red lipstick on the perimeter of the boxes, and after propping the drywall in place, patted it firmly over the boxes and made our cuts based on the lipstick lines. and then attached it to the wall. The guy who finished (aka taping, mudding and sanding smooth) our drywall said we hung it better than his crew does. We actually did, but so slowly that we could never make money at it.LOL

Thank you. I always made the T, with the 2x4's. This seems easier.

Would be nice to see the "zip" up close. And, an explanation too ...

Brilliant! 18 yrs and Im still learning ! I love this work.

Best method I've seen so far... Thank you for sharing this.

Interesting concept there Mike! I will be converting a shipping container into a tiny house soon and was just going to rent a 'Panel Lifter' from Home Depot. I have been a contractor for better than 37 years and always had a crew to install drywall, although I would rent them panel lifters for ease of install. I noticed that Harbor freight Tools now sells one for around $125., but why buy something I'll only need once? Right? Anyway, in your video you mentioned that you would use 5/8" drywall if you were doing your house....DON'T! Building code prohibits 5/8" on ceilings, as well as 'Green board' (Wet location sheetrock) on ceilings. The reason is because it is too heavy and could pull free of the fasteners. FYI, 5/8" Drywall/Sheet rock is for exterior walls in residential, or 'Fire walls' in commercial/Industrial. Residential interior walls use 1/2 inch, and bathrooms use green board for walls. Kitchen sink area also uses green board. Anyway, thanks for a great DIY method. I was taught at a young age, "Work with what you have, not with what you wish you had." Good old American Ingenuity!

Thanks Joe, I figured I would too if I didn't figure out how to do it. LOL Mike

Your idea is totally BRILLIANT!!!! You have saved me a world of hurt. THanks.

Mike, for your information, this doesn't make you a genius. It makes you a FRICKEN GENIUS!! Great tip, Thx.

Thank you for the great tip. Personally I like to cut my boxes with a razor knife, it makes less dust.

you can use a laser level to do the same trick on the wall

I have a plumb bob,never used it,now i will.Thank you,you are great! I appreciate the education.

Great tips. Love the plumb bob trick. This video will be very helpful to someone like myself who has not tackled home remodeling, yet. Thanks for sharing!

Find the electrical box with a magnet?

All my woodwork I am making with stodoys. Try it.

Great tip! This is good if you are doing one ceiling. If you've got a few to do, and they're larger, another option is to get a cheap imported drywall lift; they really speed things up and cost about $150. When you're done, you can get half of that back by selling the thing on craigslist. To find a steel box, I use a magnetic stud finder. Mine is made by Hanson, is very small and cost $10. They're also more reliable than the electronic ones for actually finding studs, and there's no battery to die. Can lights are aluminum so the magnet won't work; so I pre-drill the rock before hanging it. With tape measure accuracy you shouldn't have any problem getting a pilot hole somewhere within the can diameter. I *always* use paper tape because it's far less likely than the mesh garbage to show hairline cracks at the joint.

wife and 3 kids are in russia this summer and i have to have basement finished before they return , in my 30's i installed sheetrock in a unfinished jim walter could only think to use my head holding it up while i reached for hammer and nails!! think i dropped a couple, im 66 now and was dreading it, but God bless you and youtube!! Thanks very much for taking the time to educate a new trick for an old dog!

I just prefer to make a large "T" out of 2x4 and wedge the ceiling piece up there. less friggin' n' jiggin'.

I'd be fired on the spot for this !!!!

Thank you so much for publishing this video. This is genius! I don't know how I would have gotten my project finished without this video. I tried a lift, but it's a hallway and the lift will not fit. I used the rotating block idea on the second edge, but going vertically...get the sheet up, then rotate the 2x4 up to hold it in place. I'm not a big guy, so this method was a lifesaver.

My helper though I was crazy when I used scrap like this. Definitely a great method.

You are a genius, thank you so much for the tip to make the makeshift Sheetrock holders. You saved me from having to continue to wait for my husband to help me hang my Sheetrock.

Thank you for taking the time to make this video, it is going to be very helpful to me in a few weeks when I start my shed project. Thanks again......Chris

You are the best ever. I looked this up, immediately used your method and it worked wonderfully. You're boss!

I've done something like that for walls but never dreamed of doing the ceilings like that, fantastic idea, thanks for posting

Plum line from the electrical box is brilliant. Thank you!

Best little nugget of wisdom I've seen in a long time. Great video 👍

This guy is so smart! Best video I seen about hanging sheetrock! Nice technique

Thanks Mike best video on hanging sheetrock! I moved the blocks on top of my first sheet, put up my second sheet up turned the blocks, works great!

I'm starting a sheetrock job monday and the blocks you made to hold up the sheetrock is an amazing idea

This video is worth gold. Thanks a mill. Im saving these tips for later when I get to the drywall part.

Awesome ideas! This technique will help me drywall my garage with 5/8" sheets. Thanks for posting!

Simple, easy to implement and effective. I love it. Thanks for sharing. (You are clearly in better shape than me.)

Thanks for the idea, I'm going to try this on Monday.

I love watching experienced pros sharing their trade secret that is cost effective. Another great video from Mike.. Thanks for sharing.

Mike, I just wanted thank you for taking your time to make this video. I found your video very helpful.

Excellent tip on using the plumb bob for marking lights, thank you.

Thank you for sharing your brilliant idea! The rotating timber blocks are genius! This is going to save me heaps of time!!

Thank you sir for the great tip. It made the job a lot easier and saved a ton on labor.

Awesomeness, it's not what you know, but what you USE of what you know that counts , thank you for sharing your knowledge and experience!

I tried your technique with the long block along the wall and spinning blocks at other end to hold up ceiling sheetrock. Worked out good. Thanks for posting video.

Brilliant! I just used this idea and it worked like a charm. I was able to get a full 4 x 8 foot x 1/2" board up myself. Thanks!

You are a Genius with these simple and effective techniques!

He just answered the question I had in my mind. You rock man. I can also use laser distance measuring tool to align with cross on the floor.

OMG I adore you. I'm doing it myself and I was so scared! This is great!

Thank you, I'm 53 and I have bad shoulders but I don't like asking for help so this will be my help. Well done brother.

Clever ideas. Currently doing ceiling demo in one of my bedrooms for soundproofing, this video will be very helpful. Thank you.

Thank you. I work alone a lot. So this truly helped me. God bless

Great video and very clever solution to the problem of hanging drywall by oneself.