And then some mud ‘n tape
To finish up the drywall ceiling we still need to tape and mud the seams. So that’s what we’ll do. Sometimes life is easy.
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Buildup
After the frame, the drywall
Let’s face it. You wouldn’t like the sight of insulation as a ceiling. Especially not if there’s a metal stud frame underneath. So we did what any logical person would do. We put up drywall against the frame.
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Putting up a drywall ceiling frame
We insulated the flat roof. Then we finished that with the installation of a vapour barrier. Now we’re up to the next challenge: how to get to a nice, finished ceiling from that. Despite the availability of different kinds of shelves, we immediately knew we were going the route of a drywall ceiling. We just
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Finish the insulation: the vapour barrier
We’re going full speed in the kitchen now. First stop: a finished ceiling. For that, we first need to finish the insulation part with a vapour barrier. Why you need it Simple: prevent condensation. All air contains some water vapour. If the warm air from inside your house travels through the insulation, it cools. Cooler
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Plaster against the wall
There are things that take a lot of time to finish, and seem like barely any progress at all (removing glue from underneath the carpet anyone?). And then there are things that don’t take that much time but have a huge impact on how a given room looks and feels. If your walls are made of brick
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Roof guy: the good, the bad and the ugly
If I were a betting man, I’d bet you wanted to know more about how things ended with roof guy (now that we’re back). Maybe I’d win, maybe not, but that’s what this post is going to be about (feel free to disagree with me in the comments below).
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Remember roof guy?
Do you? You know, that guy that didn’t show up for two months after setting up shop? Only to take four weeks before our attic no longer was any subject to weather? While he claimed it wouldn’t take much more than three weeks to have it completely finished? That guy we found out to be rather less than
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Prepping those walls
With the insulation out of the way (but not completely done yet, more on that later), Â we were going to tackle the walls. You know, those ugly brick walls. I’m sure you remember them from laying out the kitchen part of electric cables. If not, you’ll surely remember them after this post (as it’s all
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Fun with insulation
After the floor came the next step towards our new kitchen: insulating the little flat roof that’s keeping the weather outside of our kitchen. Insulation is also the magical word when renovating, so we couldn’t escape it. Not that we ‘d want that, of course.
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Beam replacement on-the-fly
Sometimes you get lucky. Sometimes you don’t. Sometimes everything goes according to plan. Sometimes you have to improvise. Lately we had a mixture of both. There was some great progress according to plan in the flooring department. There were setbacks in the roofing department. And then there was this issue just above the upper window.
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