Whereby Our Heroine Finds Her True Calling
Most of you who know me might, if you were kind, concede that I display the smallest little teensy bit of an OCD behavioral pattern. If you were wholly honest, you bastards would probably call me a twitchy, obsessive nutjob. In any case, we’ll grant that I have a tendency to persevorate on things that tickle my fancy.
And boy howdy, is my fancy ever tickled! I am positively in love with mudding and taping drywall. You totally read that right, gentle reader. I love it love it love it! I can think of only an extremely small number of activities in which I’ve ever participated that give me the same deep sense of satisfaction as laying down a perfectly smooth layer of that lovely, lovely stuff.
However, my deep affection for this activity has caused a minor delay in the kitchen progress. Let me go back the beginning and explain. One of my nearly-infinite number of uncles is a trade unionist who knows his way around a mud pan. Uncle Kevin kindly agreed to come by and give us a lesson on the finer points of taping and mudding drywall (and drinking budweiser). We were enthusiastic students on all counts and at the end of evening we had the taping all knocked out and nary a beer could be found on the premises. This was going to be a breeze…
So, fast forward a month, and we really are nearly finished-tape coat, trench coat, and feather coat completed without incident-however, two things have become readily apparent. First of all, my wonderfully patient and long-suffering husband neither cares for or excels at mudding. The second thing is that if you allow a person with some modicum of OCD to weild a mud knife, you are going to have really beautifully finished joints…but it’s going to take a while because of the aforementioned persevoration.
The feather coats looked pretty good…but I finally decided that a skim coat would really take those joints to the next level - and they look fucking sublime at this point, if I do say so myself. I’ve also decided that I really need to do a flat tape job around the top of the walls. This is going to push us out another week or so, but it’s going to allow us to avoid having any kind of molding around the ceiling and will make for a much tidier/crisper transition from the kick ass ceiling panels and the equally ass-kicking walls.
