I was dead set against modular wall panels until a hospital job in Denver changed my mind

We were building out a 15,000 sq ft medical office and the schedule was already tight. The GC pushed us to try these prefinished modular panels instead of traditional drywall and tape. I figured they'd look cheap or have terrible seams. After the first room went up in 4 hours instead of 2 days, and the finished product passed inspection with zero callbacks, I had to admit I was wrong about them. Has anyone else had a project where a system you doubted actually saved your crew time?

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dylan_thompson8d ago

Following up on that, the magnetic panels are a game changer for medical spaces since you can pop them off to access wiring without destroying the wall, and that alone saves a full day of patching on every remodel.

charlesanderson8d ago

Our shop had a similar change of heart about three years back on a dental office in Aurora. We were doing the buildout and the architect speced these magnetic modular panels for the x-ray rooms and I grumbled the whole time about it. Figured they'd be a pain to cut around outlets and switches. But they had this aluminum track system that clicked together way cleaner than I expected, and we did the whole suite in a day and a half compared to a week for drywall. The seams on the finished product were tighter than anything I can tape and I still hate admitting it when I'm wrong about construction materials. That job made me keep a roll of those panels in the truck for small bathroom remodels now.

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