Although the naked eye could not see it. We have been sanding and mudding each night after work. That will continue for the rest of this week and over the weekend. We will mud one wall, almost to finish, each night and then the ceiling over the weekend, then do the...
The final day with the crew. Everybody busted their humps and we now have four new walls and a complete ceiling. All has been taped and the mudding has begun. Because it’s so humid we can only get a coat of mud per day or so, but we’ll have that...
Holy smokes did the friends and family come out of the woodwork for this stage of the project. Yoda got up early on a Saturday. Alex and Danielle too. Mom came over after her trip to the salon. Bob came. Rie and Dave from NY. Sarah and Ger too. We...
So, in addition to getting the ceiling hung yesterday we also had other achievements. Yoda came over with Mom last night and he installed two junction boxes on one wall which allowed our outlets to be moved up about two feet each. This will allow use of said outlets once...
We have regained control of this home improvement project. Sarah and Ger came over this afternoon and we hung a ceiling. It will be no easy feat to mud it, but it’s hung.
So my goal for this week was to have sheetrock hung on the ceiling and walls and completely mudded by the time we go back to work on Monday. Not so sure we’re gonna make it. We’ll try like hell though. Our house is old and settled and nothing is...
We had a very long and interesting day, Tuesday. We drove out to Riverside and parked the truck. We bought Charlie tickets for the trip in as well as for the return so that we wouldn’t have to do that twice. We hopped on the inbound train to begin our...
Two years. Congrats!
This morning Dad came over, followed shortly thereafter by Sarah and Ger. Dad brought his tool belt and several years of skills. Sarah and Ger brought lunch as well as tons of beautiful tools. Items accomplished today include: two trips to HD, tacking on 3 additional inches of framing to...
Being a plumber and all he’s dying to have been here. But, alas, he was stuck in NY on call for the entire holiday week. He was able to offer excellent advice via the internet though and that certainly counts!!! So we turned the plumber away this afternoon. I went...