All my cellulose is blown in and dry… let it dry a good 2 weeks with 100degree days lots of fans and open doors & windows… have to say i’m pleased… it’s messy and takes time… but it’s dead quite unit to unit…
drywall guys have returned (friend of old crew as old crew moved to new orleans) still hang’n my 12ft 5/8 board for $6sheet 300 sheets in 4 days alot of ceiling and bathrooms… a ton of waste but….
finish guys showed up today… wow these guys rock & roll have all the tape machines and the parts pumps and fittings to reach and fit everything…
and who is bed’n in the tape and getting in the tight spots… the lead guys 10yo son on stilts smile’n from ear to ear all day long… this kid has all but zero wasted motion… the tape machine guy will lay strips of mudded tape on the wall for this kid to grab and bed in in places where the machine can’t get… short ones for around sprinkler pipe ect… kid doesn’t miss a beat… has a pan in one hand and a knife in the other and is hit’n nails & screws as he goes…
alot of the drywall butts into my big heart pine beams… they are be’n real good about not getting mud on those… so far looks good real good…
there are those times on a job where you can see light at the end of the tunnel and you know it’s not a train… today was one of those days…
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Edited 7/2/2008 9:47 pm ET by ponytl
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my Dad had me and my older brother as cheap labor our whole "childhoods".
remember one job he left Greg in charge ... repeat customers who knew the drill.
Greg was 16 or 17 ... woulda made me 9 or 10.
we were finishing the drywall and patching plaster.
an old timer my Dad knew stopped by to check up on us ... old plaster guy.
I still remember him trying to convince my Dad to let "at least the older boy" drop outta school and come work for him FT!
funny thing ... I was way better at finishing than than I am now.
Jeff
Buck Construction
Artistry In Carpentry
Pittsburgh Pa
When I lived down in TX there was a guy that I worked with that was about 26, Orbaline, that guy could tape and float as good or better then anybody I'd ever see.
He told me that when they moved up here from Mexico he was 12 or 13. He said that he started school but soon the family needed him to work so he quit school and got a job taping. He'd been doing it half his life at the age of 26! Damn he was good, and about as good a guy as I'd ever met.
Doug
PS, it wouldnt hurt you to learn to take some pictures once in a while!
PS, it wouldnt hurt you to learn to take some pictures once in a while!
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. He's probably got the most interesting project happening on the board right now and we don't get to see any of it.http://grantlogan.net
Come on guys. If you're Festing, it's time to pay up. $85.00? Half of you have already wasted that much on beer and p0rn this week already.
Love the story!
Gotta say, the reason I HAD to read this one is the title.
I was picturing an upstairs loft with a stall for a pony and his owner, the ten YO kid was taping the drywall in it.
I figured the issue was that the pony kept eating the tape, LOL
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