Day 3:
Rick - I do not like metal studs. They give a hollow feeling to the inside of the building, every noise seems to scho in the walls. Wood was chosen by me, on purpose. Call me old fashioned, I just like the final product better.
Well, we ran from 7 a.m. until 12 midnight. What a day. I picked up the carpet, tile and associated glue, grout, etc.. that goes with it.
We are about 75% with the walls. The mud was not drying (so much for 20 minute mud) we determined it was the humdity and cranked up the A/C and closed the doors. Now we are cooking. We got a lot done today.
All the carpet is precut and ready to be glued down. It is rolled up and out of the way for now.
I called a good friend who is a tile installer by trade and he will be here at 10:30 in the morning to lay the tile in the reception area. We are only laying 275 s.f. so he should blast right through it.
We need to work on a couple of corners still in the morning then we need to work on the inside of the 2 offices. All the common areas will be done 1st. We hope to be throwing paint up on the office walls by noon time.
I hope to be able to grab a u-haul tomarrow to start the moving process. The plan is for the carpet to get laid while we load the truck at the old office. Then move on the the fresh carpet.
Wow!! The last 3 days have been a blur. I am running on pure adrenaline. I had to cut back on the beer and move on to massive amounts of Red Bull.
Some pics:
Carpet rolled up and ready to go:
My sone checking up on us:
The tile stacked and ready to go:
There there walls are getting some color on them!
Photo taken at 12 midnight, these are my co-workers and the most dedicated guys I know. I am very lucky to have them working for me.
The coloers my wife picked, I do not know if this pic will do them justice. I am really happy with the colors, really soothing and rich looking. I might have to increase my prices now.
My wife stopped by while the baby napped in the car, she could not resist to help, she painted a couple of walls and I caught her here cleaning up a little. I told her she looked like one of those chicks on the trading spaces show, overdressed for the task at hand.
Back at it at 7 a.m., I am off to a shower and pass out for 5 hours.
I hope to post up our success tomarrow night.