DIY Boogers
I've had a lot of different colored DIY
boogers in my lifetime: black, green, brown- mostly from either spraying painting or cutting wood. Today I experienced a whole new booger color: white! If you guessed drywall dust you are correct ("tell them what they've won Johnny...").
I'm finally getting close to finishing the drywall and I have started sanding joints this week. The drywall dust sucks and it manages to get
everywhere. To tell you the truth I don't really care for two reasons:
- Courtney does most of the cleaning.
- This means I am almost done with drywall!
I thought I hated painting, mostly because you can't get it perfect- it's not even remotely possible. Well, I had not experienced drywall yet. Experience is really the only valuable tool (I have none) and you still won't get it perfect. I feel like I have been doing drywall forever but in actuality it has only been two months. I guess that is not too bad considering the basement remodel has consumed 6 months (so far). At this point I have already completed the following:
- Moved the main HVAC trunks from one side of the basement to the other. This is a story in and of itself.
- Moved the main water line from one side of the basement to the other (also new lines for the wet bar).
- Moved all of the existing electrical and cable lines above the I-beams (including the ground for the house).
- Framed the walls- including a in-wall 120 gallon fish tank (used screws and drywall adhesive in preparation for ridiculous home theater bass).
- Knocked out a section of existing wall (by adding a beam) to open up the basement more.
- Wired 15 receptacles spanning 3 breakers and GFCI's.
- Wired and installed 13 recessed can lights spanning two zones/dimmers.
- Wired for a ceiling HD projector (power, vga, component and hdmi cables).
- In-wall speaker wire installation along with built-in recessed surround-sound speaker cubby-holes.
- Hung 37 panels of drywall (that's 2000 lbs.) and applied over 300 lbs. of joint compound.
I can't wait to get done with the drywall so I can start a step that takes less than 2 months!