Holiday Project

Nothing says holidays like a project that will drain your bank account and keep you busy and dreaming of the project.

This holiday was spent hanging drywall and painting. I will admit that he's been talking about this project since we moved in. I wanted it on the furthest back burner possible. I have a list that resides on the refrigerator, which gets ignored year after year.

He has wanted to install drywall on the exterior walls that 'The Bank' demolished before we moved in. The basement had been an unpermitted illegal apartment, at least it was going to be before all work ceased and the occupants scattered to the winds.

Unfortunately the lovely crown moulding was also destroyed. There has to be a good hundred feet of moulding missing that will need to be replaced. The demolition crew also damaged walls and soffits with their mini-mauls; he's patched these holes so well can't even tell where the holes were.

Instead of reconstructing the two-bedroom apartment, he has carved out a workshop for his tools, work tables and shelves, and a large open room that will serve as a 'man cave.'

Set aside is the room for the oil tank and furnace, and my laundry room with clothes rods and shelving units. These rooms will have bare exterior walls, to be painted later with DRYLOK® Masonry Waterproofer. We've used this product in the past and I highly recommend it. It works and it lasts.

He has installed, by himself, 31 sheets of mold-resistant drywall. Amazing. Herculean.

Irene has been his constant companion and supervisor on this project. She was fine with everything until he drywalled the short wall between his work shop and the laundry room. She used this two-by-four'd stud wall as her personal gymnasium. Now it's gone!