Day 272 - Drywall boarding completed

Wednesday January 4th, 2006

Soffit/fascia completed

These are the lads from Bytown Roofing who did the soffit & fascia. From L-R: Larry Jr, Steve, Larry (owner), and Rick (wearing his invisible suit). I took this photo after they fiinished loading their equipment on their trucks.

Completed preparing garage for drywall

This morning, the crew completed preparing garage for drywall - this means finishing the installation of the strapping and 6ml poly. This is Chris, preparing to install some blocking at the edge of the wall.


This is the other part of the garage with the finished poly. You can't see the floor in this photo so my work to clean up the garage is not visible.




Boarding completed

Meanwhile, the drywall boarders completed the installation of the cement board around the bathtubs and showers (sorry no photo of that). They will come back on a warmer day to complete the garage, since there is no heat in there.

This is the arch looking into the great room. Note the pile of debris in the middle of the room.

This is the view from the great room into the kitchen, with its much larger pile of debris. Paul (boarder boss) said they didn't waste much - only 5% waste. The piles seems like more than that to me, so I did some figuring. There was 20,000 sq ft of drywall delivered. 5% of that is 1,000 sq ft, which is 25 4'x10' sheets. I guess 5% could be about right - we'll see by the weight of what gets taken to the dump.

I googled the weight of drywall: 1 sq ft of 1/2" drywall weighs 1.7 lbs. So 1000 sq ft should be 1700 lbs. This means the 20,000 sq ft of drywall added 34,000 lbs (less the waste) to the house.

The interesting question now is: where are the tapers and mudders to finish the drywall?

Site cleanup

This morning, I went around the house again picking up the sharp offcuts from the soffit/fasica team (so Tawny won't cut her paws on them). Then I cleaned up a bunch of plastic garbage that was blowing around the front of the house. Then I cleaned up the garage. This afternoon - it was more of the same, but this time indoors with all the drywall. Here Sean and Charles are securing the first load of drywall being taken to the dump. This was 700 lbs of drywall debirs, and was the first significant contribution to the landfill from our construction project.

This load was 700 lbs which means there is only 1000 lbs to go - otherwise the 5% waste estimate will be low.

Tomorrow: interior doors are supposed to arrive. We received 5-10cm of snow today, and freezing rain started around 9pm.