Poor DH

[dewey]

Sheetrock really sucks. Worst **** thing ever invented. I'm putting wainscoting up in a room this spring just so I don't have to hoist up heavy drywall sheets and mud, sand, repeat, paint, etc. Don't care if it's not fashionable.

Can't say as I blame you, lol.

Ours gets done by family that do it all for a living so it's just another day's work to them. They're on scaffolding on stilts, a lot. My construction-labor days are long gone but they appreciate my supervision.

 

[herfrds]

Well he just went up to cut hole's in the roof for the venting. Funny part is because of our design all the vent pipes are all on one side of the house.
He and DS unloaded the sheet rock yesterday. I never heard so much cussing. The sheet rock was 2 pieces a bundle. So I was cutting the paper at each end so they could unload it without killing themselves. Got half the stack in our bedroom and the other half in the livingroom. Just didn't want to put too mush weight on the same floor trusses.

We just keep telling ourselves that this is cheaper then the $9000 bid we got from the local plumber. I had him out once and once was enough. He broke a piece under our sink installing a special faucet for me and he charged us double mileage for having to go back to town to get the part he broke. He also charged me for the part. He also gave us a very vauge bid. just a slip of paper with $500 a fixture on it.
We hired a different plumber who did a great job much cheaper and a fully written bid, from the materials to the mileage to his labor.

 

[herfrds]

This is just too funny to not share.

DH got the water lines run and he set up the new toilet in the new house. No more waiting just a quick dash across the yard.
well since we do not have the walls sheet rocked it is all open. So he took some insulation board and stapled it to the studs and took a cardboard box and used that as the door.
I will have to get pictures of this.
Rednecks live everywhere!

 

[dewey]

 

[Ole and Lena]

When we replaced the toilet I set the old one up plumbed to a septic tank cleanout pipe with a refrigerator box for privacy and the garden hose to fill the tank for a couple of days until I got time to fix the floor that was soft under the old one. Necessity is the mother of invention. Ben Franklin must have been a redneck too!

This is just too funny to not share.

DH got the water lines run and he set up the new toilet in the new house. No more waiting just a quick dash across the yard.
well since we do not have the walls sheet rocked it is all open. So he took some insulation board and stapled it to the studs and took a cardboard box and used that as the door.
I will have to get pictures of this.
Rednecks live everywhere!

 

[EweSheep]

Granted sheetrocks are pain in the butt! I am sure they have wood panels that are smooth enough but jeez, cost just as much as a sheetrock!

Oh I dont mind taping the fiberglass netting tape on the joints but mudding, forget it! You have to have patience for that crap! Glad my father did all our gutting, insulating, re wiring, etc. and including the drywalling. We had to have two guys on each end to put up drywall on the ceiling. If I had the hindsight of redoing it, I should have never put popcorn celing in the bathroom. It grew mold....gah! Now I want to just put up wooden cedarboards up, prime it white and call it a day. Or those beautiful tin ceiling but I am sure they will rust in that humid bathroom (we have no vents nor have any room to install a vent unless we take out bricks from the outside wall....ugh!

 

[java girl 2]

Sheetrock really sucks. Worst **** thing ever invented. I'm putting wainscoting up in a room this spring just so I don't have to hoist up heavy drywall sheets and mud, sand, repeat, paint, etc. Don't care if it's not fashionable. WHAT IS WAINSCOTING????

 

[deerman]

Hanging rock on ceilings are a real pain in the neck, literally, especially with only 1 person. That's a job where I excel at being a supervisor only, lol.

i use a redneck made one with two 2x4 one little under 4 ft for top. the other cut for height the leg, works great for sheet 8 ft and under.

on the plumbing...i just draw it out fast on paper...just lines....then you know how many "T" AND 90s you need...save myself alot of trips back.

 

[herfrds]

Borrowed a friends stock trailer and picked up the insulation yesterday. We filled that trailer completely full.