Murasaki99 ([info]murasaki99) wrote,
@ 2008-08-08 22:22:00
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Entry tags:home improvement

House Remodel -- Drywall
Yep, some "dry" pictures for you -- it doesn't get much drier than this!



A load of drywall was stacked up in the pantry on Friday last week. The drywall team arrived this Tuesday around mid-day and went to work like a team of crazed beavers, sawing, routing, and power-nailing till 8:30 pm. Actually, I think they used a power screwdriver, because the fasteners were not ordinary nails.

I was warned this would be dusty work, and they were right. I washed the kitchen floor twice that day, and wiped down all the kitchen counters multiple times, plus had to rinse off any dishes I had left out on the counters.


These photos show the results of that day's work, plus Wednesday they cleaned up some of the dusty mess and scrap and laid out paper to catch the drips from the taping/mudding team.


The office, all drywalled. It looks like a proper room now. :)


Bathroom - photo shot around the shower.


Greymalkin inspects the box of vent covers for the air ducts.


And now that there is a back door, Rum wants Out, of course!

The taping and mudding team worked all yesterday, and checked their work today. It was humid the past couple days, so things weren't dry enough for a second coat, so they will be back tomorrow to work a bit more. I'm very impressed with the results - wow!



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[info]x_expat
2008-08-09 01:19 pm UTC (link)
Looks good! Did Greymalkin attempt to eat the boxes?

How neat to see the house taking shape like this.

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[info]murasaki99
2008-08-09 02:57 pm UTC (link)
Grey was very good and did not eat the box. Rum and Saki used to be cardboard-carnivores when they were kittens/young adults, but grew out of the craze (mostly). Grey is the sock predator. :o

Thanks! It's been fun to chronicle the whole process. I've learned a lot watching come together.

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[info]centaurg
2008-08-12 07:49 pm UTC (link)
As Paula Smith once suggested to me: papyriphagous. Ours tend to be shredder-of-cardboard or shredder-of-sofa/carpet--and I'm sure someone will portmanteau a suitably obscure word for that, too.

Working on repairing a rotting fence; borrowing a post hole digger and discovering the joys of digging up buried treasure and slashing fingers on rusty nail ends--ouch.

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[info]aayesha_r
2008-08-09 11:42 pm UTC (link)
Yay for drywall screws! That means no annoying nail pops in the future. They're doing a quality job on the construction.

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[info]murasaki99
2008-08-10 04:29 am UTC (link)
Yes, they definitely used drywall screws - lots of them. I'm most impressed with the work, the young men really have a lot of experience and it shows.

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[info]_steelphoenix_
2008-08-10 11:44 am UTC (link)
That really does look good! And a lot more like a house. Good stuff!

Hehe, the cats' shenanigans are to be expected... they're cats, after all. :P

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[info]murasaki99
2008-08-10 02:44 pm UTC (link)
Yes, all of a sudden it went from looking like an open barn to a house with rooms. Very odd perceptual shift happening.

The cats keep me on my toes, and no lie. XD

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[info]kayshapero
2008-08-11 03:39 am UTC (link)
Beautiful kitties, I must say. "Always on the wrong side of every door..." :)

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[info]murasaki99
2008-08-12 02:28 am UTC (link)
Definitely! There's nothing quite like "cat help" in situations like this. :D I've got little chalky paw-prints everywhere.

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[info]kayshapero
2008-08-12 04:22 am UTC (link)
Long as nothing dangerous ends up inside the cats when they groom, I suppose it could be worse. :)

I once drove a friend to the vet with her two cats for a regular checkup. The cardboard box she was using for a cat carrier wasn't sturdy enough, and I had one come up front and try to "help" me drive. I bought her two proper designed cardboard cat carriers to bring the critters home in...

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[info]murasaki99
2008-08-12 02:40 pm UTC (link)
Well, the stuff is technically chalk, so not too toxic. I'm probably getting as much exposure as they are -- bleh! They did spray-texturing on the walls yesterday, so I came home to a house smelling of latex of some sort. *Cough* Kept the windows cracked and fans running, which helped.

Eeek, cats loose in the car is NOT helpful. 0__o

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[info]kayshapero
2008-08-12 07:47 pm UTC (link)
No kidding. I suspect it's no accident the vet had those carriers available for sale. :)

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