Dry-Walling The Living Room
Posted on 04. Apr, 2008 by Laura-Jane - Whimfield in House, Projects
Our latest accomplishment has been taking the living room from original plaster walls to blank-”dry-walled”-slate.
This transformation included the usual insulation, etc.
However, the living room had the added feature of requiring us to drywall the ceiling, which, as you can imagine, was rather eventful. After a few false starts, we built a simple “dead man” tool out of some 2×10s, and the tool made the job a little less hellish.
We also discovered that the trick to dry-walling a ceiling is to make absolutely sure that your piece of drywall is the perfect size, because nobody likes to launch a huge piece of drywall onto the ceiling, balance it precariously on one’s head–and come to realize that the piece is just a smidgeon too big, can’t be shoved into the right place, and has to somehow be returned to the floor again.
When easily putting up a full sheet of dry-wall on a wall I can be heard stating that I love dry-walling, because it looks so good and covers so much space in a short amount of time. When cutting a complicated and small piece of dry-wall or trying to get drywall onto the ceiling, I can be heard ruing Mr. Gyproc and cursing under (and over) my breath. But in the end, it looks so good that a dry-walling day is a good day.
Anonymous
Apr 4th, 2008
Wow! That does look great! Where are the pictures of you balancing drywall on your head?
Naomi
Apr 4th, 2008
That was Naomi commenting again. Oops.
Vicki
Apr 4th, 2008
Hi, You are finally back!! I have beeen waiting to hear about your updates. Wow! You have done a excellent job. I feel tired just looking at your new pics. I know how much hard work it is. I will try to call you guys now. Please be there!!
Love Mom & Paul