Have you ever gone back and completed...

As a tag on to my posting 'challenge of the week', I found the drywall tool and I'm finishing the drywall work in my utility room. Now comes the "funny" part. This utility room has been a work in progress since the house was finished in 1986. It's one of 3 rooms I made out of the attached 1 car garage built with the house. In the past 26 years so many things have back burnered this project and now that the former wife is gone, I decided it is time to finish it. Here's where it gets sticky. I had sheet rocked 2 walls in this room I believe in 1987 or there abouts and made it to the mud stage. Last night after finishing hanging the rock, I started taping and mudding the joints and I started compairing my mud work from 1987 to the way I do it now. I'm no professional at this but I can say that my workmanship on mud work 26 years ago was truely lousy! Kinda' goes back to the saying that a fitter can make or break a finisher's day. I've done some drywall work over the years but my major finishing practice has been autobody, steel fitting and wood fitting. It's pretty amusing and even scary to go back and look at some of the work I've done in the past 40 years!

Kinda of reminds me about the time a builder wanted me to help him build a house. I said fine I would, but warned him I was not a drywall mudder. After drywall was hung and mudding was to begin, he told me I could start in a closet. He came back a while later, looked and said. I see you weren't lying to me. We'll find you a different job. I have since gotten a little better, but not good. Drywalling is like most jobs, the more you do the better you get, and some are just more inclined to do better. I guess the wood working part is where I do the best. Oh, and after 18 year's I still haven't got the siding completed on the back of my own house. "Hope" to do so yet this year.

Last week I finished putting the cedar shingles on the gable end of the garage I built in 1992...

Dang your fast. would of taken Me at lease nother 10 years.

You guys are all my heroes! I built an addition onto my house in 1999. I finished all of the sheetrock except the utility room. I muded and sanded most of it, but never quite made it around to finishing and painting the room.

I was feeling guilty, but you guys have inspired me. It looks like I might have another ten years to go before I actually have to finish it.

Thanks,

Tom in TN

I spend more time "preparing for a stopping point" to be finished up later than if I'd just knock out the job :roll:
Getting better tho...