Post date: Aug 25, 2015 2:00:56 AM
I spent most of the day just pushing a wheeled scaffold around the garage floor. Eli was on the scaffold, taping the joints between drywall sheets — both on the ceiling and the upper walls. My contribution was not much, but it beats paying a good carpenter to push the scaffold. The garage taping is complete, and all the screw holes have been filled, but since the joint compound (‘mud’) shrinks when it dries, we will have to go over all the drywall again with mud.
At least the mud dries rapidly here. And the light in the garage is good for checking the smoothness of the walls, since the north wall is mostly (uninstalled garage door) and the south wall is largely on big window. That means grazing light across the ceiling and the two long walls, making it easy to see bumps or dips.
Our plan is to get the garage nearly finished so that we can store supplies and tools there while we finish the other rooms. I would go so far as to prime and paint the walls and install metal shelving, but we’ll see.
The plasterers put the second ‘brown’ coat on the mechanical room and the portal. Just as they were finishing for the day we had a real downpour, preceded by lightning, thunder, and strong winds out of the east northeast (winds usually come from the west southwest). Huge drops, A real gully-washer.The neighbor was roping goats, and the plasterers got carried away watching the fun, so they were a bit late trying to cover their fresh stucco when he storm arrived. As a consequence they all got drenched. It is only the brown coat, so I’m not sure any harm was done to the stucco. At least I don’t have to wet down the fresh plaster with the hose this evening.
At noon we settled on an interior stain color and confirmed the order for bath floor and wall tile. The bathroom got its cement backer board for the wainscoting, but the shower backer board will have to wait until the concrete shower pan has set — tomorrow will work.