Week 2: Removal of Cottage Cheese Ceiling AKA Popcorn Ceiling AKA perhaps Asbestos-Ridden
Okay, so far not a good start at the house. Disgustingness continues with taping off rooms for scraping of the cottage cheese ceiling. And let me tell you, HOW THE HECK did Dexter do this?! Taping of a "killroom" takes hours!
HOURS I tell you. Not a few minutes, hours and hoursssss......... :(
Our home is about 2400 sq. ft. The only rooms not lined with the popcorn ceiling is the kitchen, laundry and powder room and master bathroom. Which means, a big majority of the home IS! Just to tape up the living room, which granted is huge, by myself, took me about 6 hours. Yes, 6 hours of my life wasted, putting plastic sheets up like Dexter did before his "kills." Oh joy. Getting up on the ladder, sticking blue painter's tape onto the wall, getting off the ladder, stretching the plastic sheet little farther, hoping not to rip the plastic.....repeat, repeat, repeat. How do you do it Dexter, how do you do it. Tell me your secrets, Mr. Dexter Morgan. I never want to see plastic sheets and blue tape again.
I guess I shouldn't complain because I apparently have the easier job out of the two choices. The Man has the worse job, coming in after I tape up a room and getting on a ladder to scrape the disgusting white cottage cheese ceiling with some water so it doesn't just create a dust bomb. Sucks to be us right now! (reference: Nacho Libre).
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| (Panoramic of the living room) |
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| (Living room, half taped off with plastic sheets) |
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| (Living room, just about the start the floors) |
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| (Entry looking at stairs going upstairs) |
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| (Living room, looking towards the entry) |
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| (One out of the 5 bedrooms....so sad) |
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| (Hallway upstairs) |
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(My knight in shining armor....or the Man in a HEPA filtered biohazard suit
getting ready to scrape the ceiling) |
Exhausted and it's only just begun,
The Lady
