Time for a quick update.
Trying to remember where I left off, I think trim on the siding...
Thursday a week ago... Next up order drywall. I call the Pro Desk to get them to quote 38 sheets instead of paying list price. Quote comes back 30% discount.
We go grab a trailer load, aka 38 sheets, aka 2200 lbs of drywall.
Friday the gutter guy showed up. $275 and I have seamless gutters installed in less than 2 hours. Maybe I should buy a gutter machine when I retire...
Also last Friday I headed to Lowes to buy a window unit AC. 14000 BTU. Online $399, one in stock; awesome. I get to the store and it's priced at $479.
So I call the red vest over and ask about the online price. Here's the convo:
Her: yeah our inventory is wrong all the time, I'm sure we've sold that one already.
Me: I look at the online description, the Lowe's SKU#, and the UPC number; they're all the same as the unit on the shelf. I point it out to her and say I'll take this one for $399.
Her: I can't do that.
Me: No problem, find someone who can
Her: blank stare
Me: stare back
Me: Listen, you can sell me this one for $399, or I leave. Easy Peasy
Her: let me talk to a manager
10 minutes later we're checking out at $399 plus a 10% discount.
Wifey Dearest and I come home and spend a few minutes installing the unit. I'm sweating from every pore in my body. It's 93 degrees and humid. Get it installed, turn it on and feel the cool air flow over my sweaty body.
Then we start hanging drywall.
Out there until about 9pm. Temp in the garage goes down from 93 to 88.
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Saturday morning Yard sales with Wifey Dearest and Mother in Law. It's kind of a thing with us. Yard sales, Biscuitville for breakfast, a few more yard sales, then come home and get to work around 10am.
Already hot as balls
We head into the garage and finish hanging drywall on the walls.
AC running, not keeping up with the heat POURING off the inside of the roof. I grabbed my IR thermometer that I use for autocross to see just how hot the roof deck is.
On the roof, shingles are 150 degrees. Inside the garage, back side of OSB is 130 degrees. Hmmm I believe some insulation is in order before hanging drywall on the ceiling.
Road trip to Thomasville to grab 18 sheets of 3" thick DuPont foil face closed cell foam.
Come home and head to Home Depot to rent a drywall lift...
Sunday Sunday Sunday
My favorite Sis and Brother in Law come over. Jerry can do anything and he and I work together enough we can know what the other is doing.
We practice with the lift before we go too far. A little fun getting used to the lift, my step ladder, and the scaffold, but making progress in no time.
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We start cutting foam panels and shoving them between trusses. Cut for a tight fit so friction keeps them in place.
In about 2 hours we have the ceiling insulated. AC is running 93 outside, 73 inside WOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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5 pm rolls around and the ceiling is up.
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I spent evenings this week mudding and taping, and mudding and taping, and mudding, and mudding, and sanding...
A friend came to visit and spent the weekend with us.
Friday night. Thunderstorms and sitting on the front porch drinking wine
Saturday morning yard sales, like I said it's kind of a thing.
Saturday afternoon by Niece's daughter (great niece???) has a graduation party.
Saturday evening, dinner and more porch and wine time
Sunday morning Church
Sunday after church we got to work.
Paint the walls. First coat sucked up like a sponge. Second coat looks better than I ever hoped. No the walls aren't perfect, nothing I do is perfect.
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Let me tell you how much I'm worried about it............................................................
Go that out of my system.
Then late yesterday afternoon hang slatwall on the long wall.
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A little sanding and two coats of paint on the ceiling and it's move in day.