Ye Olde Sheetrock

You’re probably wondering what’s going on with the house (or not).

While away for vacation, the work continued but it was tough for the boyz to get much done without the decision maker and kicker of butts. To make up for some lost time, I hired a contractor to frame, sheetrock, mud and tape.

Now he’s kicking my butt, as well as the plumber and the electrician. This guy is fast!

The house was in worse shape than I had thought. Isn’t it always? Moldy sheetrock and rotted wood under windows and near leaky pipes. That’s being replaced but I have not taken down ALL of the walls as I didn’t want to start a full gut three weeks into the project. The damage does seem to be coming only from the areas mentioned, though.

Lesson learned? Yeah, next time I’ll start with a full gut from scratch unless it’s beautiful plaster. This was some old crappy thin sheetrock. The entire house is getting laminated. Laminate means to add a thin layer of sheetrock on top of existing plaster or rock.

Plumber is going slow and dragging me down with him because he’s a scatterbrain who sends me to Home Depot every 5 minutes. The two local hardware stores and Home Depot know me already. Plumber says I’m “mean” because I actually want him to work harder and more efficiently. Whatevs. He better get it done today or Hubby takes over this long weekend.

Haven’t gotten to do any of the fun stuff yet, like shopping for my salvage materials. I can’t seem to get away from the house. Hopefully next week, I’ll be free once the plumber and electrician have done their stuff and the other guys are just taping.

And that’s where I’m at. Gotta go. I’m picking up the plumber at 7am to take him with me to Home Depot. Ugh.