Since the great flooding in Nashville and surrounding areas a little more than a month ago, I’ve spent quite a bit of time at the house of one of my friends helping to move furniture and now – finally – painting!

My friend’s husband had removed the old drywall and molded insulation, put in new insulation and replaced the drywall, but when it came down to taping, mudding, sanding, mudding, sanding, etc. the time factor grew to be too huge.  It took him a full three weeks to figure out that drywall repair is a gigantic pain in the rear.  He finally broke down and hired his neighbor’s family who used to be construction helpers before the housing marked almost completely died in 2007.

What have we learned?  Drywall repair is a pain.  What else have we learned?  From spending yesterday  CLEANING the drywall dust before we could paint, cleaning drywall dust is also a pain!  But it’s all worth it. Her home will be better than new and I’ll be so glad when they can move back in.