Day 274 - Drywall and trim

Yesterday, I asked "Where are the tapers and the mudders??" Well, today the owner of the drywall company showed up and we talked about the various deficiencies (mostly alarm wires boarded over). Rene said (at 11:30) the taper was on his way. He eventually showed up just after 1pm and was on his way after just over 3 hours. The house will take forever to complete at that rate. I asked Rene to bring in others to help ... we will see tomorrow.

Matt from Bytown Mouldings delivered the mouldings today.

Here Charles is seeing how the mouldings will look by the patio door in the solarium. There is a base block at the bottom of the trim by the doors.



Patrick is laying out a 14' section of baseboard along the wall to see how level it is.

The floor is, as Charles says, "dead nuts level".




We wanted a trim material that would give us a good crisp edge on the mouldings, and would be durable. MDF doesn't give a crisp edge, and pine has too much sap (is always bleeding through). We needed paint-grade material, since we are painting the trim, so asked for yellow poplar or basswood. John told me they would be using American Yellow Poplar. The colour variation of the wood is amazing - ranging from black to pink to yellow to white. It is not all perfect, however, so we hope that it doesn't impact the usable material.

This is the paint station and drying rack that I set up with Patrick's assistance. I set the trim across the little scaffold (foreground) and the T-bar on the vertical 2x4 (middle of picture) for painting. Once painted, it is moved to the drying rack.