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March 15, 2006
More tape and mud
I've been conspicuously MIA for the last little while, and it's not going to get any better for the next several weeks as it's almost the end of term. But, work is still progressing on the house, albeit a bit slowly. I taped and mudded the laundry room Monday. I had intended to do this Sunday, but ended up spending the day shovelling out the driveway . . . not a fun job when there's almost waist deep drifts of snow, which have had several layers of freezing rain.
My skills as a drywaller leave a fair bit to be desired, but mud hides a multitude of sins, so it doesn't look all that bad now that the first layer's done. I was hoping to get out there today to get that coat sanded and second layer of mud on, but it doesn't look like that's going to happen at the moment.
We've got a list of stuff to do before Dad comes out again, later this spring. Our primary concern is to get the remaining hardboard off the basement walls and to get the concrete floor broken up. This is in anticipation of pouring a new slab in the basement, and also pouring three new 64" walls to shore up the foundation underneath the front porch. We're also going to have to figure out (1) whether the front steps are solid concrete, and (2) determine how we're going to remove them. And no, William, this doesn't mean that you can blast them out!
In other news, the puppy finally has a name. Dad suggested Snoopy (because he's black and white), then Bob suggested the Red Baron (from Peanuts). The puppy's constantly airborne, and is becoming more and more adept at launching aerial attacks on Tasha and the rest of us. So, we thought about it some more, until Dana suggested calling him after the real Red Baron, Rittmeister Manfred Albrecht Freiherr von Richthofen. Thus, puppy's name is Ricky, a much shortened version of the Red Baron's last name. Complicated . . . but we really didn't (as we've been asked a couple of times now) name him after Ricky from Trailer Park Boys ;-)
Posted by plainstext at March 15, 2006 08:02 AM
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If they are solid (and well built)concrete steps, good luck with getting them out.
We had some we tried to remove, and it was awful. We pounded the hell out of them with a sledge hammer for a day, and all we managed to do was chip the edges off. We finally hired a guy with a front-end loader (a bulldozer of sorts) to scoop them up and drop them in our dumpster.
Posted by: John at March 15, 2006 10:30 AM