So Close But Yet So Far
I started working on completing our basement in mid-January. It is now mid-July and it’s almost done. It’s actually so close to being done that we have started looking at carpet and have bought paint for the walls. There’s still a lot to go though. Well, not a lot but what is left is fairly daunting. Will it never end? What have I gotten myself into?
I have been working like mad in my free time to get the mud and tape up on the wall joints. At this point, everything has at least one coat of mud but a lot actually has two coats. I think that I’ll have to do at least three coats but I’ll have a better idea once I sand down the second coat. My skills have developed so that I can actually get things done pretty quickly. Unfortunately though, I have to wait for the mud to dry before I can progress. This severely limits my ability to get things done as fast as I would like.
I also don’t particularly enjoy mudding. I have always heard that it was the worst part of the job but I had no idea how bad it actually was. The thought of smearing plaster on top of fiberglass tape makes me wish that I had contracted this part of the job out. It’s not that it’s hard, I just don’t like doing it. It’s messy and my basement looks like a flock of seagulls is living down there. Stupid gravity making me drop mud on the floor…
My mom is allegedly coming into town this weekend. It would be nice if I was finished with the mud by the time she arrives so that I can sort of clean up and set up a bed for her downstairs. I’m sure that she would appreciate laying in bed and not having me drip huge globs of plaster on her face.
July 14, 2008 10:51 pm | 
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