Putting a Lid On It

It took 8 full days of work, about 2,000 brad nails, 3,500 board feet of 1X4 cedar, 18 feet of scaffolding and a hilariously diverse collection of ladders; we called in a couple of favors, and our shoulders are incredibly sore, but.. we have a ceiling!

Within a couple of days we fell into a pretty solid rhythm at a nice pace.  I and one other person alternated between the scaffolding situated in the living room and the jungle-gym of ladders arranged in the lofted bedroom, while Christy manned the chop saw set up in the kitchen.  When we hit a good groove, we could be shouting numbers at Christy three or four sticks down the line, while she handed up the next piece as soon as the previous one was nailed.  We were a well oiled machine, I tell you!  Thanks to Riley and Matt for monkeying  around with us!

This week we begin drywall.  By "begin drywall", I mean we watch the subcontractor we hired start drywall.  Having been offered the advice, unsolicited, by several people, we got a couple of quotes and decided to hire out the job.  The difference in cost after we bought the drywall and all the tools, would have been nominal.  This also frees us up to tackle some other tasks which have been sitting on our to-do list for a while.


To name a few:

1) weld together the kitchen sink
2) paint and cover the soffits
3) salvage some sort of desk and make it into a bathroom counter
4) find a chandelier
5) connect our toilet's liquid overflow hose to the septic line
6) rack the perry


OK, seeing it typed out like that, I realize that our to-do list sounds strange.


I have no further comment on the topic.


Ceiling looks nice though, doesn't it?