Day 273 - Drywall woes, and flooring disappointments/surprises

Drywallers

Where are the tapers and the mudders?? Nobody showed up again today, and nobody can get in touch with the boss.

On the drywall front, I added up all the square footage from the drywall delivery slip to get a total of 18,460 sq ft (including the cement board). Charles and the crew cleared out the large piles of drywall debris and took 3 more loads to the dump. I think the total weight of drywall debris is around 2500 lbs so far, which puts the waste at about 8%, by weight. There are still more pieces of drywall in the house that will need to go out at some point in the future, which will probably bring the waste to ~10%.

Interior framing

This is Dave, taking a break after framing the fireplace, and suffering from the slings and arrows of misfortune, or perhaps it was just a drive-by fruiting by Captain Vector.



Interior Doors

The interior doors arrived this morning. Two were missing (located at the shop) and one was damaged. Robert, the driver, took the damaged one away. The missing two will be delivered next Thursday.

We purchased 1 3/4" thick solid core doors for the bedrooms and bathrooms (to keep noise out), and 1 3/8" thick doors for the closets, etc. Since the doors to rooms are 36" wide, the thicker doors are quite heavy, something between 60-70 lbs each.

Flooring

After yesterday's bad news about the flooring, we paid another visit to Burlco in Merrickville. Mike and Judith helped us work through various options. This is the replacement wood flooring that Freda eventually settled on. It is a stained beech engineered product, and is a floating installation instead of glue-down.

Mark really wanted an exotic wood that is quite hard, but that seems to be difficult to achieve in the engineered product. Beech is basically as hard as red oak (1300 on the Janka scale, vs. 1290 for red oak). Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of choices if you want a true brown, but Mike and Judy helped us find one that would suit the cabinetry and fireplace surround.

This is Freda and Judith having a laugh and trying not to like they are posing while looking at various colour selections from the Ben Moore 2006 colour trends brochure.