A Few Statistics

For you sports fans.

Eleven 4’ by 8’ sheets of 1/2 inch ply, twenty 4’ by 8’ sheets of 1/2 inch drywall and 5 gallons of joint compound are the materials that will be covering up the mess you saw in the last photo gallery. I’ll need eleven more sheets of 1/2 inch drywall, maybe six sheets of 3/8 inch drywall, and 5 more gallons of compound to finish the job.

What’s that? Oh, well they deliver the stuff. Hmmm? No, they just bring it to the front of the building and then the driver, his sidekick, myself and (sometimes) Leigh take the stuff off the truck and lean it against our building. I then tip the driver and his friend a little for the extra effort and, while Leigh guards the door, (a building requirement) I move the stuff in through the lobby and stash it at the bottom of the staircase that leads to our apartment. The elevator is too small to accommodate a four by eight sheet of anything. The last delivery took me 50 minutes from the trucks arrival to the point at which all the materials were in the building and tucked out of the way under the stairwell.

I move the sheets up into the apartment as the work progresses. By the end of the week only 3 sheets of plywood remain at the bottom of the stairs.

The plywood is for added structure in a few key places. The half inch sheetrock is for walls, both new and also to laminate onto plaster walls and the hallway ceiling. The 3/8 inch drywall is to be laminated onto the living room ceiling to make it nice and smooth.

Just in case you want a tutorial. Truthfully this article made even my head hurt.




This is an old picture from when we were "taping" the bedroom