In every project we always reach a point where we have to
stop and say, can we actually do this? Or should we cut our losses and walk
away? This week our “come to Jesus” moment was, for Greg, this freaking footer
for an outside wall to the storage room. For me, it was the mudding and taping
of drywall.
Greg would shore up a side to build his form for the footer,
and because of all the
rain (rain, and more rain) the other side would cave…shovel
it out…shore it up…you get the drift. Four feet deep. The first foot needed to
be rock, so any time we got a break in the weather we went to the beach to
shovel rocks. Got that filled. Then he laid foam insulation and rebar. Low and behold, the sun reappeared on Friday
and he got his concrete poured!
If you have never taped, mudded and sanded drywall, it is an
art, a process, a gradual feathering of at least two but more likely minimum
three coats of mud. After spending DAYS in the bathroom, I looked at the rest
of the building and acknowledged defeat—conceding that my arms were going to fall
off if I continued sanding with the traditional drywall blocks. I said, screw
it, and got out my trusty orbital sander. Put 220 grit pad on. Applied light
pressure. What? IT WORKED! I was able to sand the bedroom in a third of the
time it took to sand the bathroom.
A
few new pics in Exterior file. Pictures don't show too much
difference between one coat, two coats or three coats of mud so no
inside house pics.
Guess we are not walking away. Yet! I WILL say it is quite
the workout regimen. We are both firming up nicely. but. what. a. way. to. do. it.
Not sure I would recommend. Thanks for following along on this building
journey!
Sunset Exterior
Sunset Bedroom
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Go Mary! Go Greg!
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