Drywall in da House

Drywall has to be the most dramatic noticable change to a house other than the initial framing. In just two days all of the drywall was roughed-in (nailed to the wall/ceiling) and in another two days the seams have all been "taped and bedded" where tape is applied to the seams between drywall boards and drywall compound is spread over the tape. They are even starting to texture the walls!
They should be completely done Thursday =8-O

Here are a whole bunch of pics over about 4 days work time:
Starting in the bonus room

*very* rough around the windows initially ;-)

they start with the roof and upper walls and do the lower walls later

starting to wall in the bookcase areas around the fireplace

the kitchen appliance area early

the front room first day

second day and the bonus room windows are a little more trimmed

the breakfast room where it meets the family room

the drywall crew passes wires through small holes where they were hanging (speaker wire is blue).

Laundry room done

Much more done in family room

Kitchen wall

high up in the family room ceiling

they have added the curved corner pieces for all of the vertical wall intersections

View from the front door

Checking the laundry/craft room out

Checking out the breakfast room

In the shower and bath areas they use special drywall with a waterproof coating on it

View up the stairs to the bonus room

Oh, so *that's* who drinks pineapple Fanta...ewww

The drywall joint compound comes in plastic bags and mixes with water...the bags come in small boxes that make a lot of trash when thrown all over the place along with the drywall castoffs...

Texturing has begun on the cathedral ceiling already

They tackle the high spots first, standing on the scaffolding


In other news, the geothermal people came back and connected all of the ground loops to the pipes coming out of the house that have been there since before the slab was poured.
Unfortunately they dug the trench, put in the pipes, and then piled dirt back loosely so it looks like we either have giant gophers or Bugs Bunny went by on his way to Albuquerque.


Guess who is cleaning up the drywall leftovers and boxes of drywall joint compound?
The dumpster is full to the top and we need to have it replaced with an empty one!


Texturing will be done this week and next Monday should be the start of wood flooring. And we got our cabinet plans figured out too so they should be ready in a couple more weeks! Moving right along...