Hey, Mike, I...I know you've been through a lot lately, and...yeah, I don't mean to be a jerk or anything, because you know I love you, but--dude, I'm gonna need that drill back. Seriously. Michael, give it bac--Bubbles, no! Ahhh!
Like an eternity of undead damnation, drywall just seems to drag on and on, following a fairly simple process:
1) Cut drywall incorrectly. Affix to studs using 1 1/4″ drywall screws and drywall adhesive (tedious, but prevents screw pops later) and think, “I’ll just fix it when I mud.”
2) Apply first coat of mud; embed with tape. Do a poor job and think, “That will just get covered with the second coat.”
3) Apply second and third coats of mud. When it looks appropriately terrible, think, “The sanding will take care of that.”
4) Sand, starting with a 100-grit screen and moving to 220 (high number = less abrasive power = more “smoothosity”). Stand back, covered in lung-filling dust, and think “This looks bad. I”d better go back and patch it with a piece of drywall.”
5) Go to step 1.
M'lady useth the rotozip tool to gently extract a window opening. When the fair maiden is finished, the sunlight that poureth naturally from her visage will be supplanted by light from the outside world. The femine pink piece of insulation ("Pinky") aideth my lady in supporting the drywall at ceiling height, like any of the sprites or fairies or flies which constantly circle about m'lady's fair brow. O maiden!
Clad in fairest white and trucker hat, m'lady coaxeth the joint compound into a corner as smooth as her pure soul. Rather than the low process of sand screening, she simply releaseth a note of beauty from her angelic vocal cord (protected by OSHA-approved dust mask, of course) and the mud rights itself out of pure shame. O unicorn!
Not content to simply sand, m'lady spreads a social justice message via hat tilt, and children smile from the valley to the mountain. O "Kids Need Hugs, Not Drugs!"
Again, deep basement windows are not something covered in the drywall sections of DIY (pronounced "crap") books. The window is set back from 1/2" drywall, 3 1/2" studs, and 9" of block, which adds up to...um... a lot.
Because they would be contacting concrete and treated lumber, the window wells posed a problem. We used 1/2" tile backer panel--easy to cut, and resistat to moisture--to frame out the windows, and outside corner bead to join the interior wall. This process, as you may have guessed, was not fun.
Boo.
Hiss.
It is worth pointing out that we used 61 full pieces of drywall--with none left over, and no trips to get more.
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