After 4 days, all the drywall has been installed. What a mess this stuff makes. Well, the drywall itself doesn't make any mess, but the installers cutting and screwing it onto the walls leave mountains of dust and piles of little chunks of gypsum board all over the place. It's not their fault - it's just the way it goes with this stuff. Most of the time, it's no big deal, but in our case it's a VERY big deal. We live here...while all this is going on! The really good news, is that we're half way there. By the end of this week, the taping, mudding, and sanding will all be complete and the walls will be ready for painting. Well, they will be ready... after we've cleaned up all the mess!
By building code, we have to drywall the basement exterior walls, so we have contracted for Bruce's guys to do this nasty job as well. Next year, after we've framed in some bulkheads downstairs, we'll have to board up the ceilings and the mechanical room walls, but that job will have to wait for now.
We have arranged for emergency lodging with some friends if the dust and mess drive us from the house completely, but we're hoping that it doesn't come to that.
We've included a few photos of all the board on the walls to give you an idea what it's like here now. Note, the pink insulated ceilings are not being drywalled. They will be covered with tongue-and-groove pine boards at a later date. Next week, we're on to painting the walls; and then laying down the flooring; oh, and getting some loads of gravel on the driveway, and....the list goes on and on.