Archive for 6 December, 2006
And they say I never post…
Dallas| 1:28 pmOn the left, the original stack of drywall (Plus all of the insulation, more than half of which has been used already)… On the right, the stack as of December 4th, 2006. Of the original 90 sheets of drywall, we have used about 40 sheets. Based on walls/ceilings completed, we figure we are just about half done hanging drywall. At this rate, we should have just the right amount of drywall, if not a bit extra!
In this shot, you can see Max perusing our work… He has been a real work-cat… From day one he has been involved in every aspect of this project:
- Climbing on and under the pile of debris
- Walking in the cement and leveler when I poured it
- Clawing up and laying in the insulation
- Laying in the pile of sawdust by the miter saw
- Playing with random objects (Nails, screws, wood, wire, screwdrivers, etc) on the floor
- Laying in the trench that the plumber dug beneath the concrete, and then
- Using the same trench as a litter box…
- Laying on the pile of drywall while Colin tries to cut it…
I’m sure there’s more, but that’s all I could think of for now! It’s always fun having a weird cat around…
This is a picture of my office, after we finished hanging all the drywall. In this shot, you can see the hole cut out for the air duct… It was cut out using a Mastercraft Maximum rotary tool, very similar to a RotoZip. This tool is extremely useful for drywall work! We haven’t cut the holes out for the lights yet, but their distances from the wall are marked along the joists, so we can use the same tool with it’s included circle cutter to cut out 5 inch holes for the recessed lighting.In order to make it as quiet as possible in these rooms, and to reduce noise traveling through the floor to the rooms upstairs, we’ve insulated all the ceiling and wall spaces with Roxul Safe & Sound insulation. This stuff has great acoustical blocking qualities, and is also a great fire block… It will not burn!
This is the storage/work room in the northwest corner of the basement. To the east it opens into my office, and to the south into the furnace room through a pocket door. We put up drywall everywhere in this room, ceilings included. The floor will eventually get new tough linoleum. I plan to build a workbench directly below the window (Thus the high outlets, for tools), and storage shelving along the north wall (On the right).
This is a shot of the furnace room… The walls in here are insulated and covered in drywall. The ceiling will not be drywalled, however I will be putting in as much insulation as possible, and holding it up with vapor barrier plastic. I am undecided about how far I will go to finish the walls in this room. I might mud them and not paint them, or I might just mud and prime them. The floor will have it’s linoleum scraped off, and painted with high quality gray concrete cement.
Stop frame animation fight sequence!
Dallas| 11:47 amI’m not sure if this is a parody, or just great work… This stop frame animation also must have taken months to compile… The number of pictures taken to do this would be in the tens of thousands! I really like the parts where they are floating around in mid-air!
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