Here you can see the progress after two sessions of hanging drywall. We spent three hours one day, and three hours the next day to get this much done. Hanging drywall is fairly easy, and doesn’t require any level of precision to get it looking good. The room in the picture is my soon to be office. Since this picture, Lee, Colin and myself spent another evening finishing the ceiling in this room, and started into my utility/storage room.

I picked up a Roto-Zip type tool (Mastercraft Maximum) at a great price, and found it to be one of the handiest drywall tools. For cutting out electrical boxes, lights, air ducts, doorways, and windows, nothing could be faster than this… It cuts faster and straighter than a hand drywall saw. I’ll try to take some pictures of this handy device, and maybe some action shots as it’s being used!

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First up is the bathroom! It’s all framed in, and the plumbing is DONE! To finish the job, Colin and I poured sand into the spaces around the pipes, and then poured cement to fill the channels I cut for the plumbing. OH, about that… I highly recommend that if you need to cut concrete, do NOT do it with a masonry blade on a circular saw. Dustiest Job Ever. I’d recommend going with a jackhammer instead… You’ll save a lot of time, and a lot of cleanup.

After pouring concrete to fill the work back in, the floor was not very level. My concrete work was not that great, and the floor had a slant to it to start with. To fix this, we mixed and poured five bags of leveling compound to flatten out the floor. Then, I poured one more bag in the shower area to level that, since it didn’t level as nicely as I had hoped. The result is what you see here, a fairly level floor.

There are a couple bumpy spots, and I plan to cut those down with a side grinder, and then patch them with concrete patching compound. I hope that goes well!

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