Monday, August 07, 2006

Drywall & painting














Pictures of outlets & duct work that the drywall crew covered

We're so so looking forward to the completion of the drywall & the painting. It means we can go on to the next phase. Cabinetry & a dishwasher, flooring & a dishwasher, accessories & a dishwasher. Not that I have a one track mind..
The painters have finished, now, there are issues with the drywall you don't see until there's a layer of paint on the walls. Call the drywall guy ( the one we haven't been able to get ahold of) & he comes in, very responsive, gonna fix it all. Wonderful, just wonderful...except, there are multiple days involved in drywall repair..you mud..it drys, come back the next day & sand & re-mud..come back the next day & sand & re-mud, etc., etc., etc. Now we had a couple of issues, that if it wasn't for the fact that I'm a camera junkie for photos of the on going process, we would have had a hell of a mess.
We're in the kitchen..drywall's done, painting's done & Tom is looking at the kitchen...something's not right...we're missing 2 electrical outlets in the wall(& one of them is for my dishwasher-Not Good!) & a duct vent in the ceiling. Apparently they were in too much of a hurry & missed a couple of things. Now we have to find them...my photos are a life saver. Unfortunately there are enough stab marks in the drywall in both the ceiling & the walls to remind you of Psycho before they found the duct in the ceiling & the outlets in the walls. More repair work.
Like I said, there are some drywall issues, once they're fixed then we have to repaint.
So we are once again , a little more behind schedule than we planned. But really, let's put it in perspective-who's schedule? If we use the drywallers schedule we're on target, if we use the painters schedule, it doesn't matter,they just paint, whenever & wherever.
I have to assume our schedule is quite immaterial and really has no bearing on this project whatsoever.





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