Monday, December 9, 2013
They were busy at the walls again. This time they are taping the walls and using compound to seal seams and prep them for the future.
An Intricate Job
It is amazing to me what all they have to do to get the walls ready to finish. They are trimming the wall-to-wall and wall-to-ceiling joints. They have to seam together side by side wall board. They have to seal around outlets. You can see the number of patterns in the kitchen, here. And this is only one room! (And there are 7 more to go.) I really didn’t know how involved this was!
Living room Prepping
More intricate prepping patterns – this time looking out the front windows.
Stilted Compounder
This is my most fun picture. Look carefully and you will find one of the workers walking on stilts so he could reach the ceiling joints. They’re made of metal, with grips around the shins! Just out of curiosity, I had to ask him if it took him a long time to learn how to use the stilts – he told me “No.” I’ve seen them at other building sites, but had no one to ask about them. How cool!!!
Another new development! We are going to have new neighbors! There were many “guys” buzzing around up the street. One had what looked like architect drawings, one had a phone glued to his ear as he aimed a spraycan at the ground… Others were marking other areas with spray cans, and still others were pushing away snow. Interesting!!! The other house across the street from us has kindof stalled. No new changes for about a week. They are still waiting to get a roof on – their trusses are here already, just no work that we have seen. They must be going through a lull!
It is interesting how the houses seem to have pauses as they “grow” then they have growth spurts where lots of things happen all at once! Our contractor told us that his uncle (who lives on “Kelly Road” (just up the hill from where we lived) in Washington, is coming out here to work on the trim in the house! It is so funny how small the world is!!!
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