out of trouble...

My good friend Wyatt came over to the house this afternoon and bailed me out. Kassie had pretty much gotten used to the ugly wall where the mantel had been, but I promised that it would be in good shape by Thursday night. When Wyatt arrived, we discussed our options. The first thing we wanted to do was check to see what the brick wall and the chimney look like behind the sheetrock. If it looked decent, we thought we might expose it.


Here we see Wyatt cutting a hole that only he can see through, since he's 6'3" or whatever.

At some point, the chimney had been repaired. It was all ugly grey cinder block, so we decided to leave the wall up and replace the drywall around the brick.





We cleaned up the edges of the drywall with metal sheetrock corner. Then we threw down some tape, slopped on some goop and called it a day.



It needs to be cleaned up a bit, but it already looks much better. Tomorrow I'll sand it, then prime it, I guess.

You've already seen what Kassie did to the room. That won't look good by Thursday. heh.