Day 206 - Drywall is Finished!

And it looks great! Mike & his crew from Justice Drywall did an awesome job! Thanks guys!  After they finished taping & mudding the walls, they sprayed on a "Level 5 finish."  Yeah, that didn't mean a lot to me either.  If you're in the drywall/painting business though, you would know that it means you put a skim coat of mud/cover material over the everything.  This ensures that the paint is taken up evenly by the walls.  If you don't do this, in certain "high light" situations, you can see the tape lines on the malls because the paint has a different sheen.

Mudding, taping & spraying this coating takes a lot of water, so now our house now feels like a sauna inside.  Great for my sinuses, but really bad for the window & to get things to dry.  It also poses a problem with trying to install the bead board ceiling, window/door trim & hardwood floors.  Any wood you install needs to acclimate to the same relative humidity as the room it will be installed in.  If you don't do this, the wood will warp & crack after you install it.  Since our house is made with SIPS, it is extremely tight.  Unfortunately, since we can't run our ventilation yet (still in the "construction phase") the moisture has no way to get out of the house!  So... we're doing it the old fashioned way.  We borrowed some dehumidifiers from friends (Thanks Feltman & Thomas clans!) and have one placed on each floor running continuously.  We also have a basement window & upstairs window open to help ventilate.  Hope it works.  the plan is to start installing the beadboard & trim next week
 
I included a Hodge-podge of pics from today.  Sort of radom:

Selfie!

Getting ready for the trim

Kleen Sweep gets thrown on the floor & helps to sweep up the drywall dust

Linus is a Kleen Sweep kind of guy!

Interior doors - Cherry

Drywall looks great!

More drywall

You want me to sleep where?

Cabinets & doors waiting for install

Off to the Twin Cities for a Birthday Weekend!  Pawning the kids off with Grandma & Grandpa!  We're picking out cabinet hardware!  It's going to be very romantic.  In a Bob Villa or Red Green Show kind of way.