Post date: Aug 28, 2015 3:30:16 AM
The drywall seems to have a lot of edges. I am conscious of this because that was most of my work today. I started shortly after 7am and quit shortly before 5pm, with a 2-hour break for lunch and siesta.
Every doorway has top, left, and right, on both sides of the doorway (for interior doors — only one side for the one exterior door I have). Every window has top, left, and right (the bottom has a wooden sill, so no drywall edge). There are three bookcase niches, each with four edges.
I count 18 doorway sides (x3), plus 8 windows (x3), plus three bookcases (x4), or 90 edges. Each edge gets a mitered piece of bullnose, plus fiberglass mesh tape, plus at least three coat of joint compound (mud). While that is a lot of work, it is less work than some other ways of treating the perforations in the drywall.
Lalo has been mitering the corners of the bullnose with tin snips, then stapling the bullnose in place. I have been applying the yellow mesh tape to both edges of the bullnose, then laying on the first coat of mud.
Eli, while good at preparing drywall for painting, is getting worried that he has at least one prospective new job and this prep is taking quite some time. He approached me today about hiring a subcontractor to finish the drywall. This is probably a good idea, as Eli is good at finish carpentry, and we still have baseboard and picture molding to install everywhere after the walls are painted, and window sills and door trim to cut and install.
I’d rather have Eli available to do the work that others cannot do well, and let the subcontractor finish preparing the drywall.
Oh, we found the third leak around the study window and sealed that today. This window, like several others, is built up from three separate windows in the factory and delivered to us as a unit. The sealant between two of the windows had a small hole in it, which (once we removed the stucco — for the second time) we were able to find and repair.
Now we can replace the fiberglass wall insulation and the drywall, and prepare the study for painting. While this was a painful delay, I prefer the delay now to having rotten walls in the future.