The garage is painted--can we call it done??!!!

Our hard working mudder/painter Darryl kept going all this week and each day was one step closer to being finished.   A bit more mud, tape, more mud, sanding, etc.  Then it was time for the first coat of primer on Thursday.  Good thing Rob was up in town, as Darryl was running out of primer and Rob had to do a Home Depot run to get more. Then Friday was the final coat of paint and then Rob and Darryl cleaned the floor--and I did a run to the Co-op to get a rubber squeegee so they could wash the water the out. And Saturday afternoon (as we were prepping for a big dinner party), Darryl comes back to install the rubber baseboards.  The place looks sharp.


And as we did three years ago when we got the garage enclosed, we had to christen the garage--back then, our dinner guests sabered bottles of champagne.  This year, totally spontaneous, our friend Herb sabered a big corked bottle of beer.  Spectacular!!!!!


Rob had to leave back for Regina so we couldn't start moving stuff back in.  The stuff is still under a tarp in the backyard and luckily we have had no snow, so nothing is buried yet.  Soon though.


Inventory of what's left on Monster Garage:  get shelving and racking; move stuff off the lawn; move stuff out of the shed on the deck; move stuff out of the workshop; put trim around the window and door... and finally... enjoy a job well done!

A little mud and a little tape

So now with the drywall all installed, we needed someone to mud, tape, prime, and paint.  I convinced Rob that we were the ones NOT to do that.  It would take us another 5 years.  Luckily, the same friend that gave us the contact name for the shingler, had a guy who does mudding and taping. We connected with Darryl and he came over a few weeks ago to look at the garage during the week--which meant Rob had to dial in to walk Darryl through the inspection!  I'll admit some of our drywall installation led to gaps and imperfections, but nothing a little tape and mud can't hide. Darryl looked it over, gave a quote and done!


Well not exactly done.  A few days after the site visit we went to California for a week (Rob had been invited to speak at Stanford on his P3 project and I ran a half marathon in LA), which meant the garage had to wait.


So we got back on October 31 and spent four hours on that Saturday emptying the garage of all the wood scraps, left over hardy plank, tools, tires, bikes, mowers, more wood scraps, and ladders.  Brilliantly, Rob had posted on Kijiji that morning that we had free scraps of drywall to give away, first come first serve and get them now.  Well within 10 minutes, he had four emails, and the scraps were gone within the hour--which meant, we didn't have to move them!


Then Darryl came on Sunday Nov 1 to meet Rob, go over details, and move some tools in.  He came back later for about 4 hours, and has been back every night this week.  He estimates he will have it muddled, taped, primed, and painted by the weekend!  Sweet!!!!!


p.s.  did I mention that we got the electrical deficiencies cleared?  So all approved now.  Yay!