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And just for a change, plasterboard.

Yeah, yeah. I know you’re all heartily sick of Kate’s Adventures in Plasterboardland. But it’s quite exciting to me to see an exterior wall in…
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That’s a lot of plasterboard

So after discovering, yesterday, that BOB would not be doing threshold delivery on the drywall we steeled ourselves for an entertaining afternoon. The day started…
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‘Tis Done

Hooooooo Raaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyy! Our ceiling is finished*, which is fortunate because our wall drywall comes tomorrow. Which will be a joy – moving 46 pieces of…
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Small successes

It took pretty much all afternoon, and was pretty tedious with the first version of the board not fitting (again, unsquareness abounds), and requiring quite…
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We did it

So, that piece of board that made our life a misery, that we took up to the ceiling and had to take back down when…
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Well, I’m glad I did some yoga.

I’m not good at it, but I enjoy yoga. It works fairly well for me, for setting me into a better frame of mind to…
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My queendom for a flange

Well, not really. But if you heard an anguished wail from the general direction of Olympia at about 2 o’clock today, that was me. See,…
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2 steps forward, 2 steps back

Having struggled to the house through the snowpocolypse a couple of times, in true PNW style, it’s rained and the snow is mostly gone. What’s…
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Sneh

The average snow-fall in Olympia is 12″ (~30cm). Over an entire year. Over the last week, outside our house we had about 8″ (~20cm) (which…
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As usual, our timing is off.

So we’re trundling along with the drywalling of the ceiling, still. It’s getting closer: We’ve actually got about 8′ of completed ceiling on one side…