I hate SANDING !!!!

[Paul Taylor]

Someone wanted the "popcorn" off our living room ceiling.
So this weekend guess who gets to remove the popcorn.
The pop corn came off easy enough with water and a wide scraper.

She was not ready for all the dust from sanding the joints in the sheet rock.

I look like a snow man from all the dust.

I hate sanding.

Paul

[john e. holliday]

Yeah, its a lot  more fun getting covered with balsa dust.  DOC Holliday

[Leo Mehl]

I hope you took saftey precautions. Doing that job is not quit as much fun as sanding that new stunter. This sounds like a summer project. Hope it don't cut into your flying time. Ain't Life Grand!

[Larry Price]

She was not ready for all the dust from sanding the joints in the sheet rock.
I look like a snow man from all the dust.
I hate sanding.
Paul

I hope this little home remodel project didn't involve 20 year old sheet rock spackle! We just ran into that at work, it was laced with asbestos and stopped the project until a asbestos abatement could be completed. After testing asbestos was found in the spackle, and in the adhesive to adhere a fabric covering to the walls. It was also found in the tile adhesive and the adhesive used to glue the carpet down over the tile. Be careful with that stuff.   

[Paul Taylor]

I hope this little home remodel project didn't involve 20 year old sheet rock spackle! We just ran into that at work, it was laced with asbestos and stopped the project until a asbestos abatement could be completed. After testing asbestos was found in the spackle, and in the adhesive to adhere a fabric covering to the walls. It was also found in the tile adhesive and the adhesive used to glue the carpet down over the tile. Be careful with that stuff.   

I hope we did not have asbestos. The house is about 18 yrs old.
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[Dick Fowler]

I hope we did not have asbestos. The house is about 18 yrs old.
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So the house was built sometime around 1989 or 1990. The last asbestos laced joint compounds were pulled from the market in 1977. I would guess you are OK but a mask is always a good idea.

[Joe Messinger]

As Dick Fowler noted, asbestos hasn't been used in joint compound for over thirty years now.  Also, drywall board never did have asbestos as an ingredient to the best of my knowledge.  It's gypsum with a paper covering. 

It's always a good idea to wear a dust mask but white buggers is usually the worst consequence you suffer for sanding drywall without one.

Joe

[steve pagano]

Paul,

     I feel your pain! I recently finished putting up 12 sheets of sheet rock and thought to myself ''Well that wasn't that bad'' Then i realized I've got 6 more rooms to sheet rock and then taping and compound left!


                                  -Steve

[Randy Powell]

Roots,

Sanding is a Zen thing. You have to get into the right frame of mind to sand.   

[Paul Taylor]

Thanks guys,
I did use a dust mask. And it helped a lot. We just got finished in time for the Greenbay play off game last night.
The room sure looks different.
My right wrist is sore today, I think from the sanding. That is my flying hand too.

I need to go sand on my Cardinal, that would make it feel better.

Paul