Once all the work inside the walls was done, it was time for the drywall to go up. It tends to be a bit on the messy side.
The sunroom drywall is installed. And a sizable quantity of debris left where it fell when the workers left for the day.
The openings to the kitchen have been covered and scraps left behind. It would have been so much nicer had the mess been cleaned up. But the new sunroom did start to feel more like a real room.
To keep the mess down during the application of “mud”, sanding and texture, paper was put down on the walkways and plastic put up to trap the dust.
It was just the rest of the house that got to feeling more like a construction zone instead of a home. And even through they tried, the dust still went everywhere. The kitchen was well protected… and not very usable.
The new area of the bedroom was also isolated and plastic put over most of the bed.
Only a little of the family room was outside the plastic wrap.
And finally when the sheeting came down and the paper on the floor came up — it was starting to look like home again.
The bedroom was a lot bigger without all the extra plastic wrap. The new area still needs work to level the floor. And the structural elements that were involved will complicate window coverings since that bump out at the top of the walls is about where the drapery rods would go.
One of these days we can go straight out the back door to the garden if we need some parsley or a couple carrots for the dinner. But it will be a while yet as the exterior needs to be finished as well.
