So again, I turned to my friend Craig. And once again, after a little digging, I found a gold mine.
Apparently, someone was renting out a commercial storage space, and had defaulted on the payment, so the storage place was selling off the goods in storage. And my luck! It's drywall. Brand. New. Drywall. And even better? There's a ton of it too!
So... Kevin made a few phone calls, coordinated with his brother, and they picked up a U-haul and drove down to pick up the drywall in Chehalis (near Centralia, about a 1:30 drive from our place). Once they got there, Kevin found out that beyond the regular drywall, they also had DuraGlass, commercial grade, paperless, water and mold resistant, impact resistant, fire resistant, fiberglass drywall... For $3 per 4x8 sheet!! Yowsa!
So they turn up with a U-hail full (and I mean so full they nearly burned up the motor on the way home) of 200 sheets (6 tons) of this fiberglass drywall.
They got the glorious opportunity to load it by hand... And unload it by hand. Oh, did I mention, it's fiberglass?!?! Itchy, nasty, horrible stuff, but when it runs between $15-20 per sheet at regular price, he just couldn't resist. (Finishing the house with commercial grade stuff... At a fraction of the price of regular drywall... Yeah, that's how we roll).
Where do you put 6 tons of drywall? On the driveway... Where else could you put it!
So there it sits (good thing it's water-proof... It can literally sit outdoors uncovered for up to a year and still be guaranteed by the manufacturer).
So... Next step (as we await the finalized plans from the structural engineer to take to the city to start on the attic) is to get the drywall finished in the front bedroom and library. Once the drywall is in, and mud and taped, then we can do the trim in those two rooms, prime, paint, then refinish the floors... So much to do... And the end of summer is fast approaching.
Anybody want to come help do drywall? (I mean, itch to death with us?) :-)
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