Day 259 - A hectic day

These photos are blurry since I accidentally had the camera set on the close-up setting - sorry about that!

Chris has been sick all week, which has obviously been a problem for getting ready for the drywall.

The truck with the drywall arrived around between 7:30 and 8am. This is Guy, operating the lift to unload the drywall. There was almost 20,000 square feet of drywall here. Guy lifted a load of drywall close to the door, and a couple of guys from the delivery crew put it onto a cart and moved it to the various rooms, where they unloaded it. This meant that the crew had to spend time cleaning up each room so the drywall could go in there.

Here's the drywall arriving at the door.

Once the main level was tidied up, we had to tackle the basement. It was very very messy. First we swept where the drywall was going to be stacked and then started sweepiing up all the garbage. We filled two huge bags. Once the cleanup was completed, I installed the alarm wiring for basement windows where I wanted the wires concealed.

Meanwhile Sean and Patrick started remedying the vapour barrier seal around the potlights again. I brought in my smoke pencil which was helpful to confirm that the fixes had been effective. Sean was pulling back the tape which hadn't sealed, applying a bead of acoustic sealant between the layers of plastic, and then screwing a piece of strapping on top of it all to sandwich the seal.

At the same time, Dave was working on shimming the furring strips so we can have a level ceiling instead of a wavy one that would make you sea sick.

And in the basement, the drywall boarding crew, 3 young lads and their boss Paul, started applying the drywall board.

Sean and Patrick discovered the pot light over the desk needed a backer board, so Sean climbed up into the attic to fasten it. Just then, Larry came in to apply the aluminum trim over the garage doors. A 2x2 was fastened to the outside of the garage door jamb, but was unforunately too long on the sides and drooping on the horitzontal part on the top. So Dave and Sean had to drop everything to fix that. So they could do this, I removed the plastic that was fastened up over the doors (see photo from Day 255 - Dec 18th) and then reapplied it on the inside of the doors once the aluminum was in place.

Since the drywall boarders will likely apply the drywall on a couple of the walls in the garage after completing the basement, I started to move the 1x4 furring strips because there was a big pile of stuff that was in their way. As it was getting dark I didn't get this finished. This will be my first task tomorrow. My next task will be to install an alarm wire for the kitchen door and then a cable outlet in the great room.

There were other things that happened too - moving a switch in the wrong place, discovering some steel studs that were no longer fastened as the top track had been cut away completely, and I am sure there were another 1,001 things too that were done. So... today was very hectic, with the crew jumping from one task to another. We sure missed Chris!

Tomorrow... I will walk through the main floor with Charles and the electrician to make sure that everything is ready for drywall.