I've learned many, many new things since buying my house (and I've only owned it 3 weeks!). This weekend was my favorite so far. After discovering some unfortunate spores (i.e., mold in the walls) under multiple never-ending peels of paint in the the outer walls of the bedrooms we decided to rip out the drywall and replace it. As this fun activity was not in the original budget it seemed prudent to do it ourselves. The fact that my cousin Tony has done a fair amount of drywalling, and was willing and able to come help out made the decision that much easier. So, for 1/10th the cost of having professionals do it, we took out the sheetrock on four walls (2 exterior walls in each room), put in insulation, put up new drywall, and are now in the process of mudding it, which takes about three days because of drying time between mud applications. A nice combination of deconstruction and construction, very task oriented, and you really feel like you've accomplished something at the end of the day. Thanks, Tony et al. You rock. Sheetrock, to be exact. Oh...that was bad...must have been all the dust I inhaled.
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