lyndale renovation 2015 & 2016
sheetrock & time capsule

In the kitchen facing west —
Here's Noah, the singing skimmer. While deftly moving around on stilts to reach the high spots, Noah cranks his radio and carries the tune well.

Here's Noah's handiwork in the living and dining rooms. New sheet rock on the ceiling is getting the taping/mudding treatment as it must.
So too are the walls; old plaster cracks and scars left from hanging artwork are being repaired. This photo also shows that the cheap baseboard
has been yanked off to make way for beautiful new baseboards to come.

More sheetrock porn.

Like the floor and walls, the framing for the soffit, pictured here, has been leveled with a laser. Noah told me that
the precision of the soffit build is making his sheetrock task easier and producing exceptional results.

Visible here are electrical hookups for the stove hood and, over the opening to the dining room, the in-wall speaker wire. Chimney and duct work are
temporarily covered for protection against damage during the sheetrock stage.

A fabulous aspect of the design is the sweeping horizontal line of the soffits and the openings to the back of the kitchen and the dining room.
That these lines all match reveals the great unity of the design.

Here is some super crisp framing and sheet rock work!

Noah told me that he often installs corner material on sheet rock that is not metal, but Edgar specified that all of our corners should be trimmed in metal.
This is the sort of under-the-hood attention to detail that I really love. In the end, the results will look great and the place will be built, as Dad
used to say, like a brick shit house.

Saturday, February 6, 2016 —
So much for a restful weekend. Again, our curbside is filled with parked construction vehicles. Today, the insulation guys have returned
for the sound-dampening treatment between the first and second floors. Noah is also back for another skim coat on the sheet rock.

The insulation guys are pumping the blown-in material from their truck down the side walk and through our back fence gate.

The insulation hose snakes it's way into our back door.

Noah, in the hoodie, soldiers through his tasks while hazmat insulation guy bores holes in the sheetrock ceiling into which he'll pump the insulation material.

Today has been another dusty day; not so bad for me, but hell on Val who has a bit of an asthmatic reaction to the dust. Along with the
big air-sucking-thingy that Edgar has brought to the project are filters in boxes that say it all: "dirty air makes me sick."