{"id":3456,"date":"2015-05-30T22:11:49","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T03:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2015-05-30T22:11:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T03:11:49","slug":"room-formerly-known-as-ricks-room-rehab-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/?p=3456","title":{"rendered":"Room Formerly Known as Rick’s Room: Rehab Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m winding down on the rehabilitation of the Room Formerly Known as Rick\u2019s Room.\u00a0 I was planning to do one long blog, but have decided that I really should do a blog of each task that I have performed.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I can do one blog for the finish.<\/p>\n

First step was to take out the decrepit carpet.\u00a0 Its integrity was still good, so I had to find a very sharp carpet knife to get through it.\u00a0 I managed to slice it into sections that could be folded into construction bags for disposal.\u00a0 This left a lot of sand, dirt, and other things I could not identify, and maybe I didn\u2019t want to.\u00a0 At least the under floor was in good shape.<\/p>\n

After cleaning up my mess, I moved on to pulling the trim from the walls and around the windows and doors.\u00a0 This is tricky work.\u00a0 It can be difficult to pull the trim without breaking through the walls.\u00a0 Luckily, I only had a couple of issues with poking holes into the drywall.\u00a0 This would mean some patching, taping, and spackling to repair.<\/p>\n

Rich wanted to take the opportunity to add grounding wires to the outlets in the room.\u00a0 We knew the outlets were the original wiring and didn\u2019t have the correct grounding.\u00a0 Since I was tearing things up anyway, it would be a good time to fix the issues with the room.\u00a0 Rich cut holes in the drywall and ran the extra wires to tie the outlets to ground.<\/p>\n

Rich then worked on getting the squares of new drywall into place.\u00a0 This would be the first time I\u2019ve tried my hand at taping and mudding.\u00a0 It\u2019s not that I did a good job at it, but it was a fairly decent job for a first time.\u00a0 I was proud of it.<\/p>\n

Sanding wasn\u2019t too difficult.\u00a0 You need a fine touch to do the sanding without destroying the layers underneath.\u00a0 After three layers of mud and smoothing out the layers, I had the walls ready for the first layers of paint.<\/p>\n

The last time I painted the room, I had added glow in the dark pain to create stars sparkling in the midnight sky on the ceiling and upper part of the walls.\u00a0 I had to sand these multiple spots over the surface to ensure they were smooth.\u00a0 After this was done, the walls were washed down and dried well.<\/p>\n

I decided to go to Ace Hardware and try their Valspar paint for this project.\u00a0 The personnel at the Paint Desk assisted me with picking out the paint and then making up samplers of the two colors.\u00a0 I wanted to be sure that it was going to cover the midnight blue on the ceiling first.<\/p>\n

Back home, I got my painting utensils together.\u00a0 We keep all of our painting tools together in one drawer out in the workshop.\u00a0 This makes it easy to find things and to keep up with the supplies when I need to buy more.\u00a0 I had purchased extra rollers and pan liners.\u00a0 I was ready to rock and roll on the next phase of this project.<\/p>\n

My first test was to check the light blue that would be covering the ceiling.\u00a0 My paintbrush dipped into the can and my first swipe went onto the wall.\u00a0 The first coat covered beautifully.\u00a0 The color was very nice also.\u00a0 I made a couple of swipes with the colonial blue that would be on the walls.\u00a0 I was glad to see that my colors would work over the existing colors.<\/p>\n

The next day, I was on my way back to Ace to pick up a gallon of each color.\u00a0 It was time to getting painting on the room.\u00a0 I talked to the guy at the desk about tips while waiting for the paint to mix.\u00a0 He had a lot of good ideas to make the project go smoothly and minimize the amount of time I needed to put into it.<\/p>\n

Taping is not my favorite part of a paint job.\u00a0 I had a couple of rolls of tape.\u00a0 That should allow me to tape off the ceiling for the first part of this job.\u00a0 The tape was applied and I started cutting in the edges.\u00a0 The first coat went on and looked really good.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t see any signs of the midnight blue or the sparkling stars.\u00a0 A couple of hours later, I put on the second coat.<\/p>\n

The job went pretty well.\u00a0 The only problem was that I could hardly walk afterwards.\u00a0 How did that happen?\u00a0 It think was all the up and down on the ladder.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t know if I was going to get the walls done.\u00a0 This was going to hurt a little, I think.<\/p>\n

The next day, I stretched out to get limber.\u00a0 Man, my muscles still hurt.\u00a0 Well, this thing wasn\u2019t going to get done by itself.\u00a0 First, I needed to tape off the room.\u00a0 Then it was time to open the new gallon of paint and get the brush working.<\/p>\n

By the end of the first day, I had the first coat of colonial blue up on the walls all around me.\u00a0 Luckily, I didn\u2019t feel as beat up as the first day.\u00a0 I might actually survive this.\u00a0 I left the windows open to help with the drying.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, I needed to work the next day.\u00a0 Finishing up the painting would be work done in the evenings for a while.\u00a0 After dinner, I changed into my painting clothes and collected my brushes.\u00a0 After a couple of nights, I was able to get the wall completed.\u00a0 Yes, and I could still walk.<\/p>\n

The color turned out exactly as I pictured it in my head.\u00a0 This was going to be a great room.\u00a0 I can\u2019t wait for the other parts to come together and add to the character of the room.<\/p>\n

After working so hard, I slept really well for several nights.<\/p>\n

\"Looking<\/a>
Looking at the doorway from the south wall.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"From<\/a>
From the southeast corner to the northwest corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"From<\/a>
From the southwest corner to the northeast corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"From<\/a>
From the northeast corner to the southwest corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"One<\/a>
One of my taping and mudding efforts for the outlet repairs.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Another<\/a>
Another of my taping and mudding efforts.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Ceiling<\/a>
Ceiling is done and first coat is on the walls.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Looking<\/a>
Looking into the room from the door.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"From<\/a>
From northeast corner to southwest corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"From<\/a>
From southeast corner to northwest corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"From<\/a>
From southwest corner to northeast corner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m winding down on the rehabilitation of the Room Formerly Known as Rick\u2019s Room.\u00a0 I was planning to do one long blog, but have decided that I really should do a blog of each task that I have performed.\u00a0\u00a0 Then I can do one blog for the finish. First step was to take out the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3456"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3469,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3456\/revisions\/3469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurekbrau.com\/blogs\/richsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}