Wall Wars, Day Two
Jun. 7th, 2009 21:22![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedgeI've decided on this particular project to relax a bit, and not try to rebuild the house in one day. My usual pattern is to devote as much time as is humanly and logistically possible to seeing the completion of the project at hand. When I was childless, I'd get up a little early, put a coat of mud on the drywall seams so it would be dry and ready for the next coat when I got home from work.
Not anymore. I just don't have the energy - nor do I wish to wake the kids.
I did finish the project for work - a bit of promotional material that we'll print, laminate, and provide to potential customers as dinner placemats for the break room. That done, I let my blood sugar crash and napped for a bit, then started in earnest on the living room wall.
The process involved removing all the remaining drywall nails, setting a new outlet box for electricity and networking - remembering how to read the cat5 keystone jack wiring diagram was a small challenge - and replacing the insulation I had to remove along the way.
Power restored, jack connected to the router, the tools are put away and the living room cleaned up for the night. Messy business, drywall, and I haven't even started mudding yet.
The real challenge is coming: I haven't yet dealt with the termite damage above the South window. I have a plan of attack there, I just don't want to. The termites turned a lot of wood pulp and the paper backing on the old drywall into mud which subsequently dried, adhered to the insulation. It comes away in moldy, dusty chunks and is, so far, the most unpleasant part of this whole project.
Casualties: left thumb and left elbow, a small cut each from hard contact with protruding nail heads.
Progress: about eight feet. Fifteen feet to go.
Off and on storms tonight, those the worst is North of us. Grapefruit-sized hail, according to the news. For us, just noise and (hopefully) rain. I'm hoping it will break the humidity, which was terrible today, like wading through air.
Not anymore. I just don't have the energy - nor do I wish to wake the kids.
I did finish the project for work - a bit of promotional material that we'll print, laminate, and provide to potential customers as dinner placemats for the break room. That done, I let my blood sugar crash and napped for a bit, then started in earnest on the living room wall.
The process involved removing all the remaining drywall nails, setting a new outlet box for electricity and networking - remembering how to read the cat5 keystone jack wiring diagram was a small challenge - and replacing the insulation I had to remove along the way.
Power restored, jack connected to the router, the tools are put away and the living room cleaned up for the night. Messy business, drywall, and I haven't even started mudding yet.
The real challenge is coming: I haven't yet dealt with the termite damage above the South window. I have a plan of attack there, I just don't want to. The termites turned a lot of wood pulp and the paper backing on the old drywall into mud which subsequently dried, adhered to the insulation. It comes away in moldy, dusty chunks and is, so far, the most unpleasant part of this whole project.
Casualties: left thumb and left elbow, a small cut each from hard contact with protruding nail heads.
Progress: about eight feet. Fifteen feet to go.
Off and on storms tonight, those the worst is North of us. Grapefruit-sized hail, according to the news. For us, just noise and (hopefully) rain. I'm hoping it will break the humidity, which was terrible today, like wading through air.