Drywallin' the day away!

Well, we must be getting crazy, as we are excited that we might be getting more snow! And we're starting to have a lot of fun with the drywalling. The dust isn't too bad, and though it's not the best part of building, it's kind of fun because we are seeing great progress and doing well at it! Shawn put the second coat of drywall mud up in the kitchen today, and then put the first coat up on the walls of the first floor bathroom. The corners, which we dreaded so deeply, have turned out to be the best part of drywalling with this product we are using. The stuff is great! It's called Ultra Flex No Coat. What it is is the basic drywall paper tape with a bit of metal reinforcement in it that allows you to press it easily into the corners. It works magnificently! Finally a time saving gimmick that actually works like crazy!

I also finally got the grouting done in the upstairs bathroom. That's a heck of a big bathroom! The grouting is fun. First you have to chisel out all the extra mortar from setting the tiles in the first place. That's actually a lot of fun, it's a patient sort of job, but allows for a lot of thinking on the side, which is nice. Then we mixed up the grout and I spread it in nicely. It started to freeze up toward the end, so I had shawn run back and forth a couple of times adding a little extra water for me to finish the job. Worked out fine. Then I went over it with water and my big grout sponge, and got the beginning coat off. Now it just needs to finish curing, and then tomorrow afternoon I'll make time to clean off the final bit of grout from the surface of the tiles and it will be time to grout seal and then it's done, and we can replace the toilet, paint, etc! And then we'll have a room done! The painting I can do, while Shawn is building in the rough frame work for the kitchen cabinetry. We're going to mimic the counters (wood) and cabinet doors that he made for the last house, because they looked so beautiful, I loved them! It's exciting to be getting so much accomplished again. Now we just need a little snow to get us back out on our snowshoes! Who would have guessed after a crazy snow amount in December that we'd be wishing for snow! We have a snow advisory for up to six inches the next two days, but local radio says up to an inch. We'll probably get a foot, and good old Mother Nature will have baffled us all again.

Good Night!