Customer Reviews

Strait-Line 64020 Stud Finder

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This stud finder just does not work! Stud finders purchased 15 years ago are 10 times more accurate than this unit. If you plan on buying this unit anyway, also purchase buy a couple of very small drill bits. Before you tear up your sheetrock, drill a pilot hole with small drill bit to test the stud finders results.

I had never used an electronic stud finder before I purchased this particular tool. I took it over to my mom's house because we needed to hang something from the studs. This thing falsed left and right. It never seemed to find a single stud. In the end, I gave up on it.

I ended up taking it back and bought a Zircon StudSensor Pro SL. The Zircon had no problem finding a studs. On the first try, it found a stud. Then found the next one, and the next one. It was right every time (I was drilling into the wall). I'm just amazed at how bad the Strait-Line was compared to the Zircon.

---I ended up smashing this thing with a hammer--
It needed to be put out of my misery.
>Another fine product from crapco where quality is just a word<
I bought it to see if it would work better then the basic zircron I had. Well if completely arbitrary readings are what you want, this is your unit. A roll of wet toilet paper would work as well, and not have the annoying high pitched beeping.
man was this thing bad.
No ,really it was no good at all
seriously, it was junk

Biggest piece of junk I have ever bought. It could not find studs properly. I trusted it and now have a whole in my wall that I have to pay someone to come and fix!!!!! It said there were two studs within 16 inches apart. I was putting up a wall niche and needed to cut out between them. IT WAS SO WRONG!!!!! It couldn't tell there was a stud in the middle at the 8 inch mark!!!! I could have done better throwing darts at the wall and going by were they landed!!!!.
Please do not buy this.

Bought this model - didn't work. Reread the instructions 3 times and tried many different surfaces - would never calibrate - always just kept beeping

Bought the Zircon Studsensor Pro SL AC for the same price (within a buck or so) - worked right out of the package. I also liked that you could switch the Zircon from 3/4" to 1 1/2" depth. These units say they detect live AC electric lines - but you'd be a fool to trust it IMHO - make sure the circuit is dead.

Like many others have said, doesn't calibrate right.... NO TWO READINGS ARE THE SAME. Half the time my WHOLE WALL was a stud. This is a terrible product. I searched for help, and found none. I even went and bought a new battery thinking it would do the trick, and nothing. Now I have to waste MORE of my time in getting a different one.

This is arguably the worst tool I have owned in 40+ years of home repair. Not only does it not work, it makes an obnoxious high-pitched beep that will drive the average person crazy.

Total garbage. You have some nerve selling this on Amazon.

Deserves zero stars. I received one as a gift. Worked fine the first day out of the box, but the next day it went nuts -- every inch of my wall had a stud under it according to the finder -- and hasn't worked since. I'm just glad I didn't waste my own money on it.

I received this as a gift and it has never worked correctly. It never calibrated and hence was useless. Save your money.

This tool is supposed to do just one job: find studs in your wall.

It simply does not work....at all.

Do not buy this item, it's a joke.