Boy was I wrong.
Jun. 12th, 2009 11:12![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedgeYesterday, I posted that the worst was over, writing about the living room wall project.
Boy was I wrong. A section of the ceiling inline with the termite damage in the wall must be replaced. What I think - I won't know for sure until I start tearing stuff down - is that the termites ate the paper backing off the drywall and now it won't hold a nail or screw, and thus sags noticeably and cannot be shored up, not even with a washer on the screw head. The screw, washer and all, just punches up through the drywall leaving a ragged hole and a still determinedly sagging ceiling.
I think I'll only have to replace a four foot wide section. The room is just over ten feet wide so that means a seam somewhere - I'll try to hide it on the shadowy side of the room. I hate working overhead (who doesn't?) : the tear down for ceilings is messy, dirty, and, if I know my attic, loaded with vermin shit. We'll clean out the living room (anyone want to help move a piano?) and use dropcloths to create a room-within-a-room so the mess doesn't migrate.
This little tool has been a lifesaver. It's a cordless hammer drill I borrowed from my father-in-law that drives 3-1/2" screws into anything without stripping the screw head or snapping the screw off from the torque. Toenailing nails or pre-drilling for screws are things of the past with this baby. I built the header (a sandwich of two 2x6 with a layer of 1/2" plywood between) in just about ten minutes after the pieces were cut to size - no pounding, no pre-drilling, no broken screws. A dream tool if ever there was one.
All this work, however, will wait. Today is our anniversary - 16 years we've been married. In fact, as I type this, 11:20, 16 years as of right now. I don't have a lot to offer my journal in the way of waxing philosophic as it pertains to marriage, except to say that I couldn't think of a better partner to go through life with. Love you, honey.
Tonight, we'll have a relaxed dinner in - no baby sitting, so no meal out - set about to restore some order to the rest of the house before I dismantle the living room ceiling, and watch episode 2 of John Adams before retiring, hopefully, early. Tomorrow, we'll work in earnest, but tonight we're taking a rest.
John Adams, btw, is a terrific mini-series from HBO, and although I love the writing and every performance, I hate the camera work: apparently no one at HBO owns a Stedicam or tripod, and the camera work is head-aching shaky, especially in close-ups.
Boy was I wrong. A section of the ceiling inline with the termite damage in the wall must be replaced. What I think - I won't know for sure until I start tearing stuff down - is that the termites ate the paper backing off the drywall and now it won't hold a nail or screw, and thus sags noticeably and cannot be shored up, not even with a washer on the screw head. The screw, washer and all, just punches up through the drywall leaving a ragged hole and a still determinedly sagging ceiling.
I think I'll only have to replace a four foot wide section. The room is just over ten feet wide so that means a seam somewhere - I'll try to hide it on the shadowy side of the room. I hate working overhead (who doesn't?) : the tear down for ceilings is messy, dirty, and, if I know my attic, loaded with vermin shit. We'll clean out the living room (anyone want to help move a piano?) and use dropcloths to create a room-within-a-room so the mess doesn't migrate.
This little tool has been a lifesaver. It's a cordless hammer drill I borrowed from my father-in-law that drives 3-1/2" screws into anything without stripping the screw head or snapping the screw off from the torque. Toenailing nails or pre-drilling for screws are things of the past with this baby. I built the header (a sandwich of two 2x6 with a layer of 1/2" plywood between) in just about ten minutes after the pieces were cut to size - no pounding, no pre-drilling, no broken screws. A dream tool if ever there was one.All this work, however, will wait. Today is our anniversary - 16 years we've been married. In fact, as I type this, 11:20, 16 years as of right now. I don't have a lot to offer my journal in the way of waxing philosophic as it pertains to marriage, except to say that I couldn't think of a better partner to go through life with. Love you, honey.
Tonight, we'll have a relaxed dinner in - no baby sitting, so no meal out - set about to restore some order to the rest of the house before I dismantle the living room ceiling, and watch episode 2 of John Adams before retiring, hopefully, early. Tomorrow, we'll work in earnest, but tonight we're taking a rest.
John Adams, btw, is a terrific mini-series from HBO, and although I love the writing and every performance, I hate the camera work: apparently no one at HBO owns a Stedicam or tripod, and the camera work is head-aching shaky, especially in close-ups.