Jim worked quite a while this morning on prepping the woodshop bathroom floor in anticipation of laying tile. He pulled up all the tile, vacuumed and then cleaned the surface, then marked the placement lines. He's going to order a different trowel and then we'll be pressing forward on this job!
He worked more in the back corner also. The area on the left hand side is being kept open for now - Jim is planning on venting the furnace out this area. He's been doing quite a bit of research on furnaces and thinks he found a good candidate.
He's starting to work up the side - this requires lots of cuts and painting.
At lunchtime, Jim took a trip to Drywall Center. He picked up some insulation for the walls - we'll be able to start some of that soon. Of course, he spent a bit of time chatting with his rep and the guys in the office. I tease Jim that it's like Cheers when he walks into some of these places!
I did more painting today - we're thinking that this may be the last batch of shingles to paint for the carriage house! It's pretty amazing - we have maybe half a square left after ordering 20 squares! That's only 2.5% left - that's accurate planning!
Jim had cut this ceiling piece for the kitchen - you can see how complicated the measuring and cutting was.
First, he wanted to attach a piece of flat steel to the top of the track so that he could attach the drywall to it.
Getting the piece on the lift...
And up in place - a perfect fit!
Fastening it down...
Looks really good - this was a complicated piece because it had to fit next to the valley rafter too.
Since we had success with that complicated piece, we decided to do another one - the first piece of bathroom ceiling. Again, lots of cuts.
In addition, it was difficult to get this big piece into the bathroom without crushing shower plumbing and insulation. But we got it up into place...
Jim started to fasten it down...
However, he needed to cut the fan box out and the lift was in the way. So he put up a piece of steel to support the edge of the drywall so that he could then get the lift out of the way.
Piece is up in place on the steel...
Then Jim could cut out the box...
Even the box was difficult to cut out - he had to have the piece fastened in place enough but of course it wouldn't lay flat against the ceiling because of the box. But he couldn't have it too loose where he was trying to cut either.
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