Sunday, April 27, 2008
bathroom construction
Our little slice of the american dream has been in a constant state of renovation since we bought it. So with a new child on the way we've been trying to get the interior remodeling finished before B-day. Well, with 8 weeks left before parenthood I needed assistance in hanging the cieling in the freshly demolished & re-walled upstairs bathroom. My good 'ol Dad donated his time to help us out. Now I have to tell you that out house was constructed by people who knew nothing about carpentry. None of the walls were "true" or "Plumb", both terms for being straight & square. See, most rooms are square or rectangular in nature. They require 90 degree angles to make construcing them easy. When care isn't taken by a carpenter & the room isn't made with true 90 degree angles cutting the sheetrock for walls or cielings can be a real hardship. During the demolition of our upstairs bathroom I decided to sheetrock over the old cieling & not rip it out. Since we couldn't see the studs to nail into, so we had to use a stud finder to "see" where they were. Common practice is that a stud should be in a wall or cieling every 16". Well in our cieling it's 16", then 13.5" then 19"... not too good... Because (pronounced bee-cawse in Jersey) the walls were 3" out of square (the room was very trapozoidish) we had to use a roll of 4' wide brown paper to make a series of templates that we stapled & taped to the cieling in order get a realistic idea of what we were dealing with. Then we took the templates & taped them to sheets of sheetrock. We cut out the shapes of the templates, walked them up the stairs & screwed them into place. Chalk lines were snapped & screws were sunk. 7 hours later, our cieling was hung!! Thanks Dad!!
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did you make dinner after that too??? poor guy! you must be exhausted. you're a good man John Paul. you are good too maggie! i am sure you were cleaning and organizing through it all. i can see you both now. wait til that baby comes. you won't know what hit you but knowing you guys, you will take it all in stride.
actually my Moms came over w/ wine, Calandra's Breads(mmmmmmm!) , a "Spaghetti Pie" & salad. Spaghetti Pie is really good, she got the recipe from Giada on the computer. I probably won't use the toilet till next week cuz of the bread/pasta/cheese combo!
well we have no choice but to get these projects completed before the baby. And Babe, the baby is scheduled to come in 7 weeks not 8...
Spaghetti pie is good!
Great job yesterday!
Congrats on your creative problem solving skillz!
When Ohio was building The Batcave, he and his friends noticed that our entire house was built on a SLANT?! It made for a few hours of colorful language and some re-planning, but that worked out as well...determination is a good thing.
OMG...SEVEN WEEKS!?!! SO freakin' exciting!
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