two coats of tape

The first coat of tape went on the walls on Monday, and the second coat was applied today. The Monday crew was quite entertaining: the guys were on stilts and listened to classical/opera music. This made them the classiest worker group we've had out at the house, by far! I half expected to look downstairs and find them painting a mural.

The crew also taped the garage, so the garage is now being heated (so the tape cures currently). Our builder brought over a diesel heater that certainly got the garage warm, but the exhaust smelled horrible and the heater had to be manually turned off and on. This meant a long restless night for Corey and I. It was kind of like having a newborn baby around - up every couple hours - but with a very ugly machine instead of a baby. Thankfully, our permanent propane heater was installed Wednesday, so heating the garage is much easier. I can't stress how great this timing was - the temps dropped during the day on Wednesday and haven't risen above -10°F since. It was -40°F windchill this morning. Heating that garage manually would have been quite a chore.


from left: Bison Booties studio, staircase, theater/family room


theater/family room

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The third coat of tape will be applied on Monday, with sanding mid-week and texturing after that. Then it's paint time!

Kya is getting very accustomed to having workers at the house. Today as I was putting her down for a nap, she told me that she couldn't sleep yet, that she hadn't said good night to the workers yet.