CLEAN UP, CLEAN UP

Everybody do your share!

This weekend is something like the previous weekend when we spent ALL weekend cleaning up prior to the drywaller's arrival because they were supposed to take care of their own clean-up.  Apparently, what represents clean to us is nowhere close to what clean means to this crew.

 Every evening for 3 nights, this is how the house was left...

And every evening after they left, this is what my husband did.....

Wallace walks around and picks up screws and nails throughout the house 

Though by Saturday morning all the cords and large scraps of rock had been removed, there was still an overwhelming amount of mess (4 industrial size vacuum bags full so far, and that is not even 1/2 the house).

DRY WALL GOES UP

    Today the sheet rock installation begins.  Donnie, Wallace and I spent all last weekend adding the last bit of blocking, clearing the house of ALL our property not nailed down, removing a few architectural pieces of trim that had been nailed down but would be difficult to replace, and sweeping and vacuuming.  A LOT of sweeping and vacuuming.  We want any mess created from this day forward to be the responsibility of the contractors to clean up and this way there is no mistaking...."Who made the mess?"  In addition, we understand that sheet rock installers work with reckless abandon.
    Sheetrock will be glued and screwed (as promised by the contractor).  I am eager to see the progress later today.
   
* Note:  I have printed out the text of this blog February 26, 2011 through today.  I will put it in a tin along with some photos of my family and the project thus far.  It will be closed up in one of the walls in our house on Hawthorne Avenue.  Perhaps one day, in a hundred years or so, someone will find this 'time capsule' of our renovation adventure.  It has been a fun one and I am confident it will continue to be!

Continue to check back here  (http://fairytoon.blogspot.com/) readers.  This leg of the journey comes to a conclusion but the trip continues.  Oh what a trip!
 

ACME DOMESTIC LIFE

My world......Very giggly.