Thursday, March 02, 2006
New TownHouse Renovation - Day 4 (2.28.06)
Woo hoo...the last day of February. This is the day we were originally supposed to close. But since we ROCK SO HARD...we got to close early.
Our goals for today were to cleanup the dust mess from sanding the ceilings, and then begin priming. This didn't work out so well. We had trouble coming up with a decent way to deal with the dust. The shop-vac seemed to be seriously pissed off at us for days of abuse, and our real vacuum cleaner ended its life pretty quickly in a belt burning display of epic proportions. Eventually we decided on a dual strategy, with me sweeping the ceilings, walls and floors (starting on the top floor) down to the entry area, and then vacuuming it up. Rena followed along with the geriatric shop vac to get the remnants. It took a few hours for me to sweep through the whole place, but I think we got a large portion of the dust out the door and in the vacuum.
By the time we got done with this, it was already past nine, so we decided to mask some things off and save the priming for Wednesday. The good news is that I figured out what was wrong with the shop-vac. We had a solidified piece of drywall and popcorn jamming up the intake hose. I go that out and we were golden.
We headed home, upset that we had fallen behind schedule. It looks as though we won't get the walls painted before the flooring is installed.
Our goals for today were to cleanup the dust mess from sanding the ceilings, and then begin priming. This didn't work out so well. We had trouble coming up with a decent way to deal with the dust. The shop-vac seemed to be seriously pissed off at us for days of abuse, and our real vacuum cleaner ended its life pretty quickly in a belt burning display of epic proportions. Eventually we decided on a dual strategy, with me sweeping the ceilings, walls and floors (starting on the top floor) down to the entry area, and then vacuuming it up. Rena followed along with the geriatric shop vac to get the remnants. It took a few hours for me to sweep through the whole place, but I think we got a large portion of the dust out the door and in the vacuum.
By the time we got done with this, it was already past nine, so we decided to mask some things off and save the priming for Wednesday. The good news is that I figured out what was wrong with the shop-vac. We had a solidified piece of drywall and popcorn jamming up the intake hose. I go that out and we were golden.
We headed home, upset that we had fallen behind schedule. It looks as though we won't get the walls painted before the flooring is installed.
# posted by Tony Starr @ 11:35 AM 
