housebuilding

Drywall, sheetrock, whatever you want to call it

Tue, 11/25/2008 - 11:19pm — ohio

I've known our neighbor Russ since we moved up here. Good guy. Biker who rebuilds Harleys for fun---we all call his garage the Museum because the bikes he's fixed up are beautiful. I had know idea he was a drywall guy until our neighbor, Rick, who engineered our house, suggested we ask him to drywall our house.

Russ is actually a taper and hadn't hung sheetrock for awhile. But he had had no work for two months and had bills to pay, so we agreed on a price, and he started working. It took longer than expected to get all the drywall on, but he did an amazing job. The guy is an artist. Persnickity as hell, didn't want help, brought his little dog, and fought his way through the zig-zags we have throughout our house.

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