While Mike and Tony were installing the windows, the lumberyard delivered the drywall for the ceiling, so as soon as they were finished, Tony started wiring in some new lights for me, and Mike got his super nifty drywall hoist ready.

Tony Jakacky cuts a hole in the ceiling above the sink for a new light.

I’ve never seen such precariously long sheets of drywall, and it was almost comical to watch Mike and Tony wrangle them into my little house. They did it, somehow. And more impressively, the did it without breaking any drywall.

The first sheet of drywall goes up in the living room.

That drywall hoist was terrifying. It make a falling-apart sort of clanking noise as Mike cranked it up, and I was sure it would fall and the drywall would kill us all. Well, not me, because I wasn’t stupid enough to get under it. I was terrified it would fall and kill Mike and Tony, and then who the heck would finish my ceiling?

Tony muds the screw heads and seams.

But, thankfully, they both lived to finish the ceiling themselves. That pretty much wrapped up the first week of renovations. There was some other stuff going on outside, but I’ll tell you about that later.

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