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The installation of drywall is definitely a messy job. During this particular time period the dust level was (cough) awesome. We experienced nasal clogs (where dust particles actually dig their way into the muscus membranes of the nose, producing pesky scabs). We also brought home about a pint of gooey dust in our hair at the end of each day.
It's hard to imagine what the installers themselves had to put up with at the end of the day! A log home, however, is no match for a stick house in terms of drywall, so we can count ourselves lucky in this regard. In this Barna log home we thankfully have more log walls than drywall. Even the DELIVERY of the drywall was interesting, as the first few photos below show. Each 4x12 ft sheet of regular drywall weighes about 90 lbs. The same-sized fire-resistent drywall sheets (for the garage) weigh 110 lbs. You can see, then, why they go to the trouble to bring in big equipment to hoist drywall sheets to the different levels of the house! Look how exacting a fit it is through that third floor window! |
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 Drywall for the second floor came in through the porch that hasn't been screened in yet (for good reason, eh?). |
 Lesley sits on a pile of drywall 'mud.' |
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 Installing drywall in the elevator shaft was not so easy... |
 ...as you can see...! This is looking up from the garage level to floors 2 and 3. |
 Drywallers have their own unique set of tools. |
 ...including the tell-tale stereo...which blasts away at full tilt (of course). The mud on the stereo is so thick, Dr. Ellen has to put on her glasses to find the OFF switch. (WHAT DID YOU SAY?? HUH??) Nirvana is leaving behind the jukeboxes at the end of the day. |
 These stilts are too cool! The drywall guys run around on these like nobody's business. You'd think they were born with them! The splashes of white dots that you see are specs of drywall DUST that Dr. Ellen's camera exaggerates. These are the pesky, gooey things that get in your nose and hair. YUK. They will be in all the photos for awhile, just so you'll know. |
 How about THIS expanse of drywall in the loft?! 23 feet of built-in desk space and bookshelves will soon grace this wall. |
 A look at the drywall in one of four bedrooms. You can see how the drywall interfaces with the Square-D logs. |
 Justin climbs out of a ceiling-level utility closet on the third floor where he has been installing drywall. |
 Lesley and Justin then have a laugh over the disparity in the size of HIS and HER shoes. Note the pesky dust particles, still. |
 Too much drywall was delivered to the third floor, so individual sheets were gingerly lowered downstairs for the lack of an alternate route. |
 Each 4x12 sheet not only weighs 90 lbs. but is also awkwardly flexible and fragile if not handled properly. |
 We have renewed respect for the guys enclosing the 12 ft garage ceiling in drywall, arrrrghh! |
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