The G-Word: December 2011

Why "The G-Word"?

Prior to this project actually breaking ground, the word Garage had become something of a 6-lettered swear word in our family. You see, we bought this house ~5 years ago only after I had verified that the setbacks and septic were ok to support building this garage. I've built foam core models in 1:20 scale; I've spent hundreds of hours playing with various designs with home CAD software.; I've studied neighborhood covenants, code books, and educated myself on proper building techniques. And through this all, and much to my wife's dismay, I've been talking about this experience to the point of driving those closest to me nuts. So, since around the beginning of this year, when I really started to get this ball rolling, this garage has been affectionately referred to as "The G-word".

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

They can do in an hour what I could do in day

They started, slowly, a bit before 9 AM this morning. By 7:30PM, basically all the drywall was hung, both downstairs and up. Also managed to start a first, and in some places a second coat of mud on 75% of the garage area...

Still a lot of cleanup to do, and a few odds and ends here and there, but still an amazing amount of work done in a day, especially given 2 guys hung ~6000 lbs of "lightweight" drywall, and 2 other guys worked just a half day taping.