Guest Blog: "Dr. Ywall"

Before Drywall, but Following 200 Bullet Driven Concrete Nails:



One Bloody Thumb and Several "Discussions" Later:




Time to Fill in the Holes:



Melanie and I have been hard at work the last couple of weekends trying to finally make some progress on her plans to finish the basement. While the project, in theory, appeared to be rather straight forward, the act, as is often the case, turned out to be quite challenging. In order to hang the drywall, as well as mount the outlets/switches etc, we needed to first fasten wooden slats to the concrete walls. This involved using a nail gun that fired gunpowder driven nails through our boards into the concrete (ok, yes, despite the blisters, that part was fun). Unfortunately, problems arose as we discovered the walls were not square, or smooth, or flat, or straight, or even concrete in places... but we managed to figure things out and are now close to finishing the first room.

Seeing as we have an agreed upon system in place for these initial stages the rest of the basement should come into form smoothly... Now that is just asking for it..