projects on the go
I wish we had a few more days of preparation. The place will not be ready in time. I’ll have to negotiation a deal with them.
I started the kitchen. I removed all the stored boxes and began priming. As it turns out, Dave was not done mudding some of the ceiling. I saw one piece of green tape but didn’t know how far it went out.
Next, priming the living room. Primer complete, this is how things stood.
As the title says, more drywalling was done today. The bathroom must be finished soon so that Dave can come in and tape. However, more fiasco happened as well.
I found, in trying to put up this sheet on the top half of the east wall, that there was no backing at the top. I added some angled pieces and Tuck taped the cut vapour barrier.
I say fiasco because it was a miserable failure, bulging, breaking, sticking, being the right size but not shape, etc. I ended up ripping it from the wall in many pieces and tossing it outside.
More DW (drywall) from HD (Home Depot).
Along with the drywall, I got a regular 3″ ABS elbow and finished off the vent stack.
Things seem to go so slowly until I look back at the pictures of what has been done so far. Progress is being made.
Today the rest of the ceiling drywall in the suite went up. The stairway slanted wall was done first. I had cut it a little too big, not being able to measure accurately. Dave and I struggled to get it into place. As well, the backing put into the east side wasn’t staying in place, so the drywall kept raising up. I’m confident the weight of the ceiling will keep it down. I’ll get up into the attic and secure it when there is time.
The attic hatch was cut from the ceiling before putting this piece up. Again, a measurement glitch meant that the piece was two inches too long.
This is the story of this house renovation. To do this, you must do that first. It seems that anything done was to cover up something else. It was had been a constant battle, one that makes every task take forever.
Outside correcting old mistakes, ordinary renovation tasks always seem to play out this way, too.
The goal was to add drywall to the bedroom door frame.
To do that, I have to drywall the stairway wall.
To do that, I have to fur the adjacent wall directly over the stairway.
But first, I have to rebuild the header to fix the hanging balloon stud that was cut through decades ago.
To do that, I have to reroute all the wiring.
But before that, I have to chip away at some of the rabbeted shiplap clad boards and planks.
Etc. etc. etc.
So Dave ended up adding the drywall himself. <sigh> Someone else is doing my job.
I was going to add stairway ceiling drywall yesterday, but first I had to add furring strips. I couldn’t mount them with screws in the sloped wall area as there was no room above the rafter to stuff the drill (driver). So I went to Canadian Tire and found a 2-pack similar to this for $4.99. Two! The floor clerk was there and asked me if I needed help, and I told her I need 50 or 100, not 2. She didn’t have any.
Among today’s tasks
Eight more sheets of 1/2″ drywall.
The dining area dormer drywall took a couple of tries. I mistakenly assumed one side would take the opposite cut of the other. Oops. Not enough coffee yet (10:00am!). But it’s done now.
Today’s task is to get the exterior of the new windows complete before the scissor lift is returned.
An unfortunate find.
When I got here this morning, the scissor lift was still there, waiting for work to begin.
The bedroom window rough opening needed to be framed before the window went in.
However, the lift didn’t go up past 10 feet or so. I moved the plywood back and forth hoping to give a level ground. Maybe the error 18 was because it was tilted sideways? I texted Aaron at United Rentals. A technician would call me back.
