5 genius ways to find studs in a wall... without a stud finder! 

The flashlight technique is new for me. Thanks! Now I'll spend Mother's Day running around with a flashlight yelling "Aha....a stud" :)

The using your magnetic level trick is genius! I never thought about that. Great video!

Thank you so much for this video. I have two stud finders to no avail. I was about to go out and buy another one. Your methods work like a charm.

Wow. That light trick is cool! I can see where the nails are, really clearly. Thanks! 😊

This is another example why “lock & key” builders, construct better homes‼️ They are conscience to these details because they have to work the next phase of the build. As you opined in the description, Yall know the reference point where layout began- plus Yall add tremendous amount of blocking‼️ After I shifted to all masonry; so many times the exterior sheeting or drywall on prefab fireplaces, was only nailed on corners and couple in middle‼️ When I started nailing metal lathe or wall ties; I was actually securing the sheeting to the house ( we actually nail lathe and wall ties to studs). We found the un-nailed sheeting 1st as we put felt paper up before the lathe/ties- yes, paper nailed to studs w/simplex nails. That gave a true pattern where studs were for wire/ ties. Many fireplaces,! I would strip down to studs and reframed ( depending on artistic design) to insure my quality of work. Blessings to YALL AND PRAYERS FOR FAMILIES/ JAMIE‼️👈🏻👴🏻🌹 Blessed Mother’s Day🌹🙏‼️

I've got a stick with a magnet that I glued on the end. Works awesome. Thanks for the videos guys.

You failed to mention the "drill a hole every inch until you hit stud method". To me, this is most accurate 😆

Tip 3 with the baseboard done the job for me, old 50s home so spotted them straight away, thank you very much, nice short informative video, you got a subscriber

I love you guys' little sketch inserts you do. Like the one here where Jason takes the stud finder.

THIS FR SAVED ME!!! LEXIE BRASHER CANT THANK YOU ENOUGH. THE FIT CHECKS HAVENT BEEN AS HARD AS THEY ARE NOW

By far the best stud finder video I've watched. Now I need to find an actual "Stud" 😍

I install trim and the Franklin Sensor is hands down the best. No need to calibrate on the wall. Just press the tool against the wall and turn it on. The 11-13 led lights will illuminate to show where stud (s) are in the wall. Costco was selling this for a good price last time I checked. Wish you could have demonstrated yours in this video. It's a game changer. SHOUT OUT TO JAMIE!!!!

Your video helps with putting a TV up. Didn't know the outlet. ThNk you so much!!!!

Good tips. Saves having to patch all the nail holes after looking for that elusive stud.

I love your magnet tip! You saved me from having to download a sketchy app on my phone. Awesome advice! Thanks so much!!!!

my god your methods are so good! I found it with a magnet right away!!!! more than Genius!

The magnet trick totally worked!! Thank you!

Oh my God! You are a genius. I would have never thought of the magnet or the light trick. That was awesome! Thank you. :)

Great tips! Always learning something new.

Great video! Thank you!

Thanks for these tips and thanks for sharing with us.

fantastic content with humor!!!! Love it!!!!

Thank you so much, for posting this video. This was great

Great tips! Thank you! Love your channel!

Thank you for all of the stud jokes! Funny, fast, helpful... what more could we ask for?!

The magnet worked perfect! Thanks 😊

Thank you! Don't know why I never thought of the magnet method, life saver (or atleast aggravation saver)!

My phone has FLIR thermal imaging and I have used it to find studs Interior walls are easier to find studs in exterior walls with FLIR I have have used it to find water leaks as well Works beautifully

Great tips man.keep them coming!!

The magnet 1 is the best one to me and helped me find the stud thanks 👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿

Wonderful ideas . Thank you, great show

The magnet solution worked! thanks so much !

Awesome and valuable Sir!

You are a Legend! Awesome video!!! Thanks!!!

Excellent! Thanks for this. Just what I needed to know.

Magnet one was awesome. Thank you!

Good tips, especially the magnet and flashlight. Going to have to try both. Hoping Jaime is doing ok

Awesome video thank you!

NAILED IT!

Love this I’ll try the wall socket way. This video was funny too!

Amazing video thanks for sharing my favorite method is the tapping method

Here’s to Jamie, a true clean shaven honest worker if there were ever was one! I know Jamie is still recovering but he would have been a great asset in this video. Here’s to ya Jamie! We all all waiting for your return.

i find a paradiddle always works!!! love your videos!! x

Brilliant, so easy I now know what I'm doing

I haven't really used the magnetic great tip. I am excellent at tapping and finding studs very old houses can be very misleading though all the lathe and nails and screws that have been used over the decades can be a real bummer. I have used the flashlight technique a time or two though!! Prayers for Jaime love your videos sometimes especially when I can't get out of bed you really put a smile on my face and help me not be a grumpy butthead. Tool video bit me again bought a new Bosch 3 1/4 planer the other half was waiting for me to wake up to tell me I had several packages I pointed to the video blamed on it bit me again can't wait until I can get out of bed again to try it out even though I just bought a new Dewalt a couple months ago.

Great info.Get well Jamie

Super helpful thank you

very helpful thank you!

Thanks for the help

Very... enlightening!

Thanks King

MAGNETS! YOU GENIUS! That worked for me, stud finder I got was broken, it wouldn't beep for any studs, even one that was visible on a different wall. This magnet trick worked flawless!

Heard those paradiddles!

You can also use a hairdryer. Drag it along the wall and when you hear the pitch change it is on a stud.

thank you so much i spent two hours to searching with studs finder to dam find the studs but on magnet finally easy find it thank you

Thanks a bunch!!!

#5 worked for me!

Best stud finding video on RU-vid.

I wasn't expecting to get a laugh out of this video, thanks guys 😂

👍👌👏 Thanks a lot for making teaching recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all of you.

All good tips for drywall; most will not work on plaster walls (at least in the 2 plaster-walled houses I've lived in). I recently bought some strong magnets to find studs in my plaster walls but no dice. Where the lath is exposed they will stick to the nails like glue, but through 1/2 inch plaster the nails are invisible. Stud finders work every once in a while, but mostly they're confused and beep and freak out with the "start over" signal. The only sure-fire way I've found to find studs is the method in the beginning of the video, which I call the "drive-by" method. Just guess where you think a stud is (measuring 16" off a corner and hoping you get lucky, or using the outlet trick) and drill (or nail) a small hole through the wall to see if you hit a stud. If so, mark and measure 16" away and repeat. If not, move the drill over about 1/2" and drill another hole. Keep going until you hit a stud. This method can be ugly! And scare your partner that you're destroying the crib! But if you're looking for studs that means you probly fina do some more damage anyway - cut into the wall to install outlets, attach something heavy to the wall, etc. In which case you may need to do some touch-up spackling/painting anyway. So hit the drive-by holes while you're at it, sand and slap some touchup paint on 'em, and no one will know you were there!

This really helped! So simple and smart!

Eric you’re the man dude! Thanks for helping a noob like me.

Great video!

Haha!!! That very first technique in the Intro, nail every quarter inch 😂 yeah, totally me.

Didn't know to use magnets. Luckily I had some that were strong enough to get through. Thanks!

Love the magnetic thanks much

I love that y’all have fun with this shit fr lol

Bro you look like Murr from Impractical Jokers specially on 3:07

amazing thanks so much

Thank you. I found mine by the switch box.

Thank you

I’ve never been able to use the tapping method but I was able to find them this time using the magnet, so tyvm for that! Oh, and btw…you’re so cute💕 Watching you made this video that much more enjoyable🙂

All great choices this is also why I own like 3 stud finders lol

Exceptional video! The best I've seen for stud finding and the lighthearted humour makes it extra entertaining. I tried the strong magnet idea before and it did not always work for me but when you talked about the nails in the baseboard I put two and two together and ran the magnets along the baseboard to find the nails and the studs and it works perfectly! The tapping technique is pretty good too once I get used to it. Thanks so much again!

I’m an electrician working on commercial sites so metal studs are the norm. Another way I know to find the stud when screws are used is to crumble some fine steel wool over the wall. The screws become magnetized as they are driven resulting in the fine steel dust adhering to it. Also carry a cow magnet on a piece of masons string. It will find the metal stud through the drywall. Doesn’t need to find the screw. If you can fin a big enough cow magnet I’ve seen it work through double 5/8” drywall. Keep up the great tips. Been enjoying your videos

thanks

I’d like to know the 20 people that always give every video a thumb down. I bet they’re the biggest cowards, especially when they down vote the videos about Jamie’s injuries/ updates. Thanks for all the videos and may Jamie’s recovery be speedy.

subbed within a minute into the video awesome shit guys!

Ty

Thx so much. My dad is a retired contractor. His answers are resolute… 1- “use a tape measure - there are 16 inches between the studs” 2- “u can hear it when u tap on the wall” 3- “well for your house, they did a shoddy building it, surprised u can’t see the cracks & seams in the craftsmanship- use a level” 🤭🤦🏽‍♀️. Thx for this video. I’ll try the magnet as I hv several tape measures.

Grreat work. Hope your brother is back soon baby. Woohoo

I've been using an earth magnet for years and it works all the time.

All i can say is not all heros dont wear capes👍🏽

Tysm I wish I found this video before I drilled 20 holes in the wall.

I like all the so many inches on center is a stud, or drywall nails/screws every 12” (if any at all) haha that shit doesn’t matter at least in Vegas. I’ve also seen houses with a random outlet boxes just hanging out in drywall

I just have to look in a mirror to find a stud.. but the ladies don’t agree with me for some reason🥴🤓🤔

Good one. Surprising what you can see on drywall if you get the right light and angle. If you are having trouble finding screws with magnet look for joints since there are screws right next to one another where the panels join. If you can't find the joint, start 4 foot off the ground, where the joint usually is.

Really like the strong magnet idea, never thought about that. If you get a piece of RG-6 (standard cable/satellite) wire strip out the center copper wire, cut a 45 (or sharper) angle on the end, you can easily push it thru drywall to verify a stud location without leaving a big hole. Most times it will never be seen.

Any advice on finding studs in Knotty Pine T&G?

Much like you, if we're doing stuff that requires a stud finder, going and finding the guy using it every time is annoying. I bought a little cheap one I keep I'm my belt, but it's not very accurate and has seen better days. Also the framers we use aren't the best, so finding 1 stud doesn't guarantee the next one will be 16 inches lol. I've Never heard of the magnet or flashlight technique. My torpedo does have a magnet so I'll gave to try this out. But I have become somewhat of a master of the finger tap technique lol.

good tips. I like the magnet idea...I was on a job that had a bunch of firewalls (so 2 layers of 5/8 drywall)...I was doing handrails on finished walls...it was a rough go, the magnet wouldve been helpful

I have tried a dozen stud finders, they don't work for me, I use a 16 gauge nail, I also tap the sheetrock with my hammer and listen for the thud .... Oh, and most electricians are right handed so the stud is on the left of the receptacle ... sometimes ... 👍

the light one worked really well for me. the wall is done kinda poorly so i can see all the details and flaws on the wall

I use 2 magnets and a string to swing it back and forth. I have many so I just mark them with magnets. Also some people knock till it sounds solid. (Then magnets)...

Thanks man just found my studs, would have cost me £20 for a studfinder 👍

I went to a place to install some new shelves and benches one day and when I removed the old cupboard there was about 30 holes on the wall behind it where they’d been randomly drilling to find fixing points

Tapping is more about feel than sound. Keep the same force behind every hit. Where it's the hardest and hurts to hit you have a stud. You have give between the studs it cushions the tap ever so slightly. I'd double-check with a magnet because the longer you tap the more everything feels like a stud. Your just breaking your finger don't worry.

I’ve used that magnet trick for years--it’s probably the best method there is.I can also use the sound method pretty successfully too.Im in the Custom Window treatment business and I install some insanely heavy items on walls that absolutely must be into framing but the layout of where my brackets need to be doesn’t always allow for using 16” center placement--that’s when I pull out the 5-6” deck screws and go looking for the sheathing.There are a handful of high end builders I do work for who have made my life extremely easy--they line ALL the walls with 1/2” plywood and it’s like a dream--every screws a home run.

I found a combination of the tape measure (16" or 24" from a wall) combined with knocking works really well.