For those of you following my blog of that crazy thing my husband and I are doing, you might be wondering what happened to us. Did we quit? Did an injury stop us? Did we breathe in too much sheet rock dust?
The answer is, “No.” We’ve just been working away and working through feeling overwhelmed. Jer and I have made progress since I last posted. Probably the biggest thing was finishing the sheet rock. I’m quite proud of this very difficult job being completed. The false floors that we used to hang the upper wall board and cover our vaulted area had to be removed to finish in the open space between upstairs and downstairs.
There were a few wild cuts with gaps bigger than we wanted but nothing that couldn’t be filled with wall mud. Jer even cut the stair walls down because we wanted to put in banisters instead. It would have been impossible to hang all that sheet rock without our neighbor’s equipment, especially the 12 X4.5 -foot boards. I barely had the strength to lift them up onto the equipment so that we could crank it up to the ceiling and the walls where Jer would then screw it in. Thank goodness Jer is strong.
Since we had never done mudding and taping of sheet rock joints, we posted on social media in the area, asking people who they knew that could help us. We met Derek, a self-proclaimed hillbilly. We quickly learned hillbilly time is not like ours, but he was a good teacher. So even though he might come for three or four hours at a time, because he had to make it to a flea market he just couldn’t miss, Jer and I would take over where he left off. We left the hardest areas for him. The chalk dust did get to be a bit much, even with doors open. This was a long project and everything ends up taking longer than we planned. So frustrating but we did complete it.
Jer and I smiled with our white dotted hair and faces when we finished all the wall spackle and knock down on our ceiling. It’s hard to believe we did all that… mostly by ourselves.
More to come because more has been done.
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