Projects Time to Put it All in a BIG PILE and do Sheetrock

I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who got side tracked with construction/honey-do stuff. A couple years ago after working on my '53 Chevy, after a short breather of course, I'd get right back to it........right...

When informed by the little woman we would be hosting Easter Dinner in the spring, I decided the house needed some slight updates. There is no such thing as slight when it comes to home remodel...ripped up the floors, installed 900 sq. ft of hardwood. Bought and installed all new kitchen cupboards, painted several rooms, new crown moldings, and new window trim. I did 99% of it myself, and I JUST made the deadline. When I finished, I rewarded myself by buying a '32 5 w The wife was so tickled with the house, she never said a word about the cpe.

And......the construction stuff was fun, and since then I have done more.. my son's house, my shop, ...some day I'll get back to the cars. I hope.

 

Yep, I just got 70 sheets delivered Wednesday, will be carrying it to the ba*****t tomorrow. Check out marshalltown hopper guns, I load up a hopper gun with mud(add some water and mix it down to pancake batter consistency) and shoot my seams, quick level p*** with a 12 inch knife, lay the tape, another p*** with a 12 inch knife to bury the tape, another p*** with the hopper gun and mud to bury the tape, p*** with a 12 inch knife. You can lay a light texture on the garage walls and skip sanding any seams if you prefer. Other companies sell hopper guns but marshaltown is the way to go.

 

Sheetrock? For the walls ? Here we call it drywall but I used that only on the ceilings. On the walls I used T1- 11 paneling. Easier to put up, no finishing required and you can hang anything anywhere. Bump it with anything and it isn't hurt. If you want to clean the dust off just hose it down

 

Just hang in there, take a big breath, relax, the motivation will come back. Right now, I am out of work for the first time in about 20 yrs, NO toy money, its cold and wet outside, NW grey funk. So I am hammering the lows and highs out of my Desoto valve covers, picking filing and sanding prepping them for plating. It doesn't cost me anything but time, and making **** shiny always makes me feel better.
Theres several parts for sale on the HAMB right now that would fit right in with what I am doing, and for good prices, nothing I can do about it. Just gotta bide my time, I know it will come together at some point, just not right now.

 

I have never used my Marshalltown gun this way!?!?!?!? Makes sense, maybe you go do a tech feature on the Garage Journal?

 

I hate doing drywall. Hanging, taping, mudding, sanding...I hate it. Don't get me started on crown molding or wallpaper. I would rather block sand a he**** than do drywall.

 

So you now hnow I feel about things electrical. Got sidetracked, busy s****ping stuff, got three neat bins, copper, aluminum, steel and a box for br***. Unsellable furniture is now smashed and in the wood stove fuel pile.Still no sign of bare concrete. Bob

 

Need help, let me know...By yourself ****s, goes ok with two just don't get carried away with perfection..

 

I string studs and celing joists and hit the high ones with a power plainer. "You'll never see it" is a phase that makes my blood boil. Bob

 

Nobody will ever see a hump in the wall, and then you will have to tell them it's there. And the average person could care less anyway.
The best thing to do is to fix it and avoid all that h***le!!!!!

 

sheetrock the garage, put the roadster with nice shiny paint inside, no will even notice the walls.

 

Maybe that is why all the walls in Leno's Garage are covered with paintings?

 

ha, i never noticed.

 

When I was out there the tour guide told us Jay would find a nice photo or post card, and get some NBC artist to enlarge it to cover a 20x20 foot section of wall. There is some real mice artwork out there, wonder if it ever gets featured? Bob

 

Mice doing art work?

 

take a break and get inspired ... it'll come around. Sheetrock and thatll help get things in perspective

 

Good to know I'm not alone buried under life chit's piles.

I tell myself most are one time obstacles, pick 'em off one at a time as I can, helps keep the light on for the fun stuff projects down the road. Looking like a better next year already.

 

That finished garage is gonna be real nice in the LOOOONG New England winters. Theyre calling for snow in Rhode Island Wednesday

 

Inspiration

 

My bottom garage had a ceiling of upper garge cement floor, not too even..I glued and screwed furring strips on 24" center as level as I could get..Ran all the wiring for lights and ceiling recepticles, had enough room left for 1/2" alum coated insulation and then 3/8" sheet rock..Now for the weird part...since I had marked on the walls where the furring strips were after the ceiling was painted I snaped redlines on the ceiling..Anytime I need to screw something to the ceiling I instantling know where to hit the furring strips..And yes some people do give me **** about it..

 

Seb, the fact that you won't place a screw in a wire is well worth snaping those lines, I had all the wires run in my garage in conduit with surface mounted boxes, I wanted a 1920's carriage house look. Got the wainscoting and chair rail ledge on the North wall, made it out of a huge sliding barn door. The cream and green color combination came from a Moose Head beer carton. Wow, that was 15 years ago when I quit drinking. No progress today, fixed a friends roof. Bob