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!