My Crews Can Do It Themselves

Your Crews Can Cut Their Own Backing. But Should They?

When EZI BACKR comes up on a project, one of the most common responses we hear is simple:

“Our crews can do that themselves.”

And they absolutely can.

The question isn’t whether your crew knows how to cut plywood. The question is how much time and labour goes into getting that plywood from a supplier to a finished piece of backing installed in the wall.

Look at the Whole Process

When backing is cut on site, the work starts well before someone picks up a saw.

First, the plywood needs to be sourced and ordered. Once it arrives on site, you need somewhere to receive and store full sheets until they’re needed.

Then comes the cutting.

Space needs to be found for a cutting station. Material has to be moved from storage to that station, measured and cut into the required sizes, then distributed to the crews installing it.

On a multi-storey project, the challenge grows. Material and cutting stations may need to move as work progresses from floor to floor. Full sheets need to get where they’re going, offcuts need to be dealt with, and the process repeats as the project moves forward.

None of those individual steps sounds particularly significant.

Together, they represent hours of labour and another process that has to be managed on an already busy site.

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What If the Backing Arrived Ready to Install?

EZI BACKR simplifies that process by supplying plywood backing pre-cut and ready for installation.

Instead of dedicating site labour to processing full sheets of plywood, crews can take the required backing off the pallet and install it.

That’s the real value of pre-cut backing.

It’s not about whether someone on your crew can cut plywood. It’s about keeping skilled trades focused on productive installation work and reducing the number of steps between material arriving on site and work being completed.

For general contractors that self-perform backing installation, that can mean a simpler workflow and less time spent processing material.

If backing is being completed by a subcontractor, there’s another option: the GC can supply EZI BACKR to the trade, helping keep material moving and backing installation on schedule.

You’re Buying the Plywood Anyway

Ultimately, plywood backing is already part of the project.

The question is whether it makes sense to buy full sheets and use site labour to turn them into backing, or have that work completed before the material arrives.

You don’t have to change how you build based on an assumption.

Let’s just see what the price is.

Compare the cost of EZI BACKR against the real process of sourcing, handling, storing, cutting and distributing plywood on site. Once you see both sides, you can decide which approach makes more sense for your project.