Today, repairs have become much easier and more enjoyable than a few decades ago. Of course, because they invented such a wonderful material as drywall. This finishing material has already firmly won its place as a leader in the construction market, and almost no repair can do without it.
You can use drywall in a variety of cases:
- wall covering;
- the formation of complex suspension devices on the ceiling;
- creation of decorative and functional partitions;
- installation of columns, arches and niches in the house;
- Furniture assembly.
In addition, plasterboard finishing will help you transform your apartment, making it unique and original. You can easily do all this with your own hands, having read the step-by-step instructions in each case.
But there are situations when, after the completion of the repair, it is necessary to find a metal profile in a plasterboard wall or ceiling. The question is, “how can I find a profile under the drywall sheets?” remains very relevant at this point in time. After the completion of the exterior finish, there will be no seam left on the wall, not even a hint of installation work. Therefore, it will be quite problematic to determine the frame elements under the finishing material. This article will reveal to you all the secrets of the right search.
The need to find a metal profile under drywall can arise in various situations:
- when to hang a picture;
- if there is a need to install a mirror on the wall;
- when you need to hang a TV on the wall;
- installation of heavy hanging cabinets or shelves;
- chandelier ceiling mount;
- installation of skirting boards that will be nailed to the frame elements.
In any of the above situations, you need to find a metal profile under the drywall.
Dealing with the frame
As you know, drywall can be installed in two ways:
- without a frame. It is used if the walls are perfectly flat. The method is used for small areas of the room and a slight slope of the walls. Allows you to quickly install drywall sheets with an adhesive solution;
Installation without frame
- with the creation of a framework.
Frame assembly
If you used the frameless method, then the question of finding profiles disappears by itself, since no metal fasteners were used here at all.
Today, they resort to mounting the frame quite often, since often our apartments have, to put it mildly, uneven walls.
It should be noted that the assembly of the frame is also possible in two ways:
- using wooden slats;
- using metal profiles.
In apartments and houses, both materials can be used to create a frame structure of any complexity.
And at this stage, all the fun begins, since the search methods will differ depending on what material was used: wood or metal.
In search of metal
Magnet
The most common material for the manufacture of frame elements today is metal. Due to its strength, the mounted frame will be rigid and will be able to withstand all the load that you plan for the walls or ceiling after plasterboarding them.
Metal profiles used to create frame structures can be of different types. But since they are all made of metal, finding them can be very easy. To do this, you must use the old grandfather's method, namely, a magnet.
Since the profile is metal, it should attract a magnet even through a layer of drywall.
Note! Using a magnet will only give the desired result if the sheets used for wall and ceiling sheathing were thin.
With the help of a magnet, you can easily find a rack or guide profile in a drywall wall, as well as the jumpers between them.
To find a metal profile in the wall you need:
- choose a place for the future mounting of the picture / mirror / shelf / cabinet;
- take the magnet in hand;
Note! It is best to use a large magnet that can cover a large radius of impact at a time.
"Worked" magnet
So the desired wall element will be found much faster than if you drive along the wall with a small magnet. In addition, it will be more convenient to hold it in your hand and it will not damage the surface of the walls. Do not use fridge magnets to search.
- hang a magnet on a thread. The length of the thread should be about 15 cm. You can do without a thread;
- we slowly drive along the proposed search area until a reaction appears - the magnet stops moving along the wall.
In order to accurately determine the profile along the wall and not climb it every time with a magnet, use several magnets at once. In this situation, you can fix the location of the profiles using small magnets. Place them along the profile and you won't lose it again. You can do even easier - make subtle notes with a pencil.
metal detector
After that, you can repeat similar actions and determine the second profile in the area of future actions. This should be done in a situation where you need to hang an LCD TV, cabinet or shelf on the wall.
If it is necessary to hang a small-sized product (mirror, decorative shelf, picture, etc.), then there is no need to look for a second profile.
As you can see, in the situation with metal profiles, things are quite simple. Using a magnet, you will find a profile in just a couple of minutes.
Of course, you can use other search methods as well. For example, the search for metal profiles can be carried out using special equipment (technological method). Today, there are special locators on sale (for example, a metal detector) that are configured to search for iron.
You can find data that some models can also search for a tree. However, the cost of such equipment makes this method unprofitable. It is unlikely that even the biggest fan of various technological lotions will buy special equipment just to search for a profile. Why reinvent the wheel when there is a simpler, cheaper and easier way?
What if it's a tree?
wooden frame
Despite the fact that wood is noticeably inferior in strength to metal profiles, it is still used as frame elements for finishing walls and ceilings with plasterboard sheets.
If this is the situation for you, then finding wooden slats under sheets of material threatens to become a real headache. After all, it is simply useless to drive a magnet here.
However, if you use a powerful magnet, you can find wooden slats on the screws that attached the drywall sheets to the tree. In such a situation, it is better to use a large magnet. When passing it over the screws, the magnet will stop a little.
In addition, in this situation, there are several other ways to win:
Note! When using the engineering method, you need to make calculations based on the fact that there are three profiles on one sheet: one will be located in the middle, and the other two - at the edges. Also, in order to accurately carry out all the calculations, you need to know which sheet was used: standard or non-standard. With a standard sheet, everything is simple. We take its width and set it aside from the beginning of the walls. Where the sheet ends, there will be a rail. And for a non-standard sheet, you need to remember its width.
As you can see, using various methods, you can relatively easily find frame elements under drywall sheets. Using a magnet, you can easily find a metal profile, but other methods given in the article will help you cope with the search for a wooden frame. The main thing here is not to cut off the shoulder, and to carry out all the necessary calculations in order to accurately hit the target element.
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Many scold the Internet for decentralization and the lack of a separate structure. It, in principle, cannot be regulated, but this, probably, is its main advantage. Nevertheless, individual elements of the Internet, from miniature niche sites to monstrous social networks, on the contrary, make every effort to make their structure as understandable and easy to regulate as possible. Here you can start talking about databases, about complex identification numbers, but all this lies solely on the shoulders of developers. Ordinary users are left with a minimum - id, which are unique identifiers of individuals, but even with millions of users, they fully function and can be used by them. It is worth sorting out how to find out the id of someone else's page or group in Odnoklassniki; how to find a person in Odnoklassniki by and id and what it is. Also check out the topic in Odnoklassniki.
So what is it?
ID is a set of numbers, which, in most cases, but not in Odnoklassniki, is the user's serial number. Here it is some other set determined by internal algorithms.
First way
There are several ways to find out your id or a friend's profile in Odnoklassniki. On the main page of the network, click on your name. A page will open with a URL like this: https://ok.ru/profile/xxx, where xxx is your unique number.
Option number 2
You can also select the "More" tab in the menu and click on "Settings". 
There, going down to the very bottom, you will immediately see where there are 2 mentions of your id. One, as part of a link to the site of classmates, with which you are already familiar, the second is directly the number itself.
On the social network in the same settings, you can easily change the link to your profile by choosing any unique name consisting of Latin letters, which will come after ok.ru/ and enter on your page, but even after that, each user will have its unique id. 
If you are interested in how to change the id in Odnoklassniki, there is a simple answer - this is impossible.
How about other users?
Sometimes it is necessary to understand how to see the id of another person in Odnoklassniki. But it may not seem so easy if, for example, he changed the link to his profile, putting a unique phrase instead of numbers. However, to solve the problem is very simple, it is enough to know the recipe. And also, knowing this unique name, you can easily find . 
So, where to find and see the ID of a friend's profile in Odnoklassniki. You just need to point to the link "Write a message" under the person's photo on his page. Depending on the browser, in different places of the window, a link to the intended page with the following content will be displayed: ok.ru/messages/xxx, where xxx is this unique user id. 
What if I'm not on Odnoklassniki?
It turns out that you can find out by the id of a certain person in Odnoklassniki and using a search engine. It is enough to enter as much of his data as possible, including name, age, address and write "Odnoklassniki". Already in the search box, you can use the link to find out the unique identification number. 
Knowing the id can feel like useless information because it won't help you do anything or anything. The interface of the social network involves completely abandoning service information, however, if you are fully using this social network, and it is an important source of information for you, it is better to remember your id right away so that you do not encounter problems accessing your account in the future, and in case of such - quickly solve them with the help of the support service, which most often needs this unique number.
How to find out the ID?
We find common acquaintances and records from five years ago.
Vkontakte has more than 350 million registered users. Many people there have profiles filled with a bunch of interesting and not so interesting information. A lot of life hacks have been found/invented for searching through the service. The article describes five of them.
1. How to find a page by email address or phone number?
This can also be done with a mobile phone number, but for this you need to know the person's last name. You can find out by sending a letter to his email (if he is not encrypted and has entered his data correctly).
2. How to find out the user's hidden date of birth?
It happens that some people hide their dates of birth from the guests / friends of the page (many ladies 25+ hide only the year), but they are still on the pages (during registration, they indicated all their data, and then hid it). In such cases, you can find out the year, month and day of birth of a person using a search.
We go to the search, indicate the name, surname, city, university, etc., that is, all the data known to us, so that the person is displayed in the search results and there are a minimum of extra people. In the "Additional" section, indicate the expected year of birth. If it is entered incorrectly, then the person will disappear from the search results, and when you guess correctly, he will appear. Checked multiple times.
Similarly, you can choose the month and day of birth, as well as political views, school, marital status and other information.
3. How to view old posts on the wall?
And here is a little life hack that will help you learn more about the past of a new acquaintance. To read the statuses of a person set five years ago, it is not necessary to tire yourself by scrolling the tape. Everything is much easier.
We go to the person’s page and at the beginning of the wall (microblog) click on the link “To Vasya’s entries”, then click on the link “Go to the search” and indicate the desired number in the calendar that appears when you click on “Entries before a certain date”. This way you can find everything that has not been deleted.
Many people registered there back in 2007-2009 and have changed a lot since then. Today, the girl posts “commandments of Vedic femininity” or “rules of the Orthodox bride”, and seven years ago she set the status “who stole my thong yesterday at the registration, please return. Can be anonymous.
It works for communities too.
4. How to find a chain of mutual acquaintances?
We test the theory of "six handshakes" (which with the development of the Internet becomes the theory of "four handshakes"). Opening the application Non-random connections and specify the id of the desired person. Until recently, you had to wait five minutes for the chain to be built, but now it happens in a matter of seconds.
If you need to get to know someone who lives in your city / village with a population of several tens of thousands of people, then you most likely have a mutual acquaintance who can bring you together. The application will help you find this person.
Many people instinctively trust friends of friends and try to please them at least a little bit (make a small discount, for example). The Soviet law "I'm from Tamara" and subconscious hatred of strangers, at least a little, but affect the behavior of everyone.
5. How to see the statistics of visits to your page?
Do you wonder how often people look at your profile and like it? It's very easy to find out. This is the case when they say: do not have 100 rubles, but have 100 friends.
If you have less than 100 subscribers, then we delete a certain number of friends so that there are at least 101 subscribers. After that, at the very bottom of the page you will see a link to the page with statistics (in the new version of the design a little higher), where views and likes of your page are visible by days and months. It is better to do this late at night in order to have time to send new invitations with explanations to remote people. However, for some it will be just an excuse to finally clean the tape.
If you do not need a permanent display of a link to statistics, then you can view it by simply pasting it into the address bar of your browser http://vk.com/stats?mid=+ id of your page.
Information about people can be collected not only on VK, but also in thousands of other places. I already wrote something on this topic.
In the Google Admin Console, you can customize user settings, such as giving them an alternate email address or changing their password.
How to go to the user account page
How to set up filters for the user list
How to find the user account page
- In the search field at the top of the Admin Console, enter the user's name or email address.
- In the list that appears, select the desired account and click on it to go to the corresponding page.
Searches for addresses, names and surnames that begin from your search query. Text in the middle and at the end is not parsed. For example, upon request and you can get results Andrey and Andrei, but not Alexander.
Operators to Refine a QueryYou can narrow your search by specifying additional criteria. To do this, enter an operator, an equal sign (=), and a search term.
Advice. You can also search for groups. To do this, use the operator email, for example email=marketing.
Search Operator CombinationsTo further narrow the scope of your search, you can use multiple operators in a query.
How to find a person on Instagram by phone number?
Binding a phone number and confirming it on Instagram is not a prerequisite. You can register with an email address. However, many people prefer to use a phone number when registering, as it is much more convenient and reliable. In this regard, an interesting question arises - "is it possible to find a person on Instagram by phone number?". It turns out you can. But provided that the user has registered a profile through this number, or linked it to his account later. In this post, I'll show you how, with a little trick, to get the answer to the question - " how to find someone on instagram by phone number".
As one of my acquaintances says, let's simulate the situation. Do you have a phone number and are you curious to know if its owner uses Instagram, and if so, what nickname is his account under?
Looking for a person on Instagram by phone number
Login to your Instagram account and go to your profile page. In the upper right corner you will see the icon of a man with a plus sign. Click on it and go to the "Interesting People" page, where there are Instagram users that you are recommended to follow. If you receive a notification requiring permission to access your contact list, you must click "Allow".
On the "People of interest" page, you will see 3 tabs: Recommendations, Facebook and Contacts. The "Facebook" tab contains all your Fb friends who use instagram. In the "Contacts" tab, Instagram users who specified during registration or linked to an account, phone numbers from the list of your contacts on the phone. This tab is what we need. Well, in the "Recommendations" tab there are Instagram users from the other two tabs, as well as those with whom you have a lot of common subscriptions and subscribers.
Instagram users from our contact list
Go to the "Contacts" tab and see a list of accounts with a variety of nicknames. All these users indicated during registration or linked numbers from your phone book to their account. Try to identify the account of the right person in the list. Found - good! Not found - move on.
If you could not find the desired account in the list, then either the user uses a non-personal profile in which he does not indicate his data and does not upload his photos (a page of interest, a group or a fake page), or his number is not used on Instagram and then you won't be able to find it. To find out for sure, write down any strange profiles whose owners you could not recognize. Next, exit the Instagram app completely. In the contact list of the phone, find the number of the person you are looking for, write it down on a piece of paper, and delete it from the phone book. Launch Instagram again, go to the "Interesting People" section and go to the "Contacts" tab. If any profile has disappeared from the list, then this is the account of the user we are looking for. If everything is in place, then the phone number is not used on Instagram and you will not be able to find anyone using it.
