DIY Week 10

DIY Week 10

This Week: 

Spackling the wall

This week Sarah, Connor, and I made MAJOR progress with the team room. We all went Saturday morning and afternoon to paint the room. We brought lots of supplies, snacks, and other essentials to get the job done. Connor and I arrived first and lifted the couches out of the room. Then, we began to take the pictures off of the walls. We realized that we had a much bigger job to do than we thought. As we began to take the pictures off, some came off easily whereas others had to by pried off. One would think that pictures would be hung on a wall. However, these were taped with what seemed to be the stickies tape in the world. Some pictures had been up since the 80s and those were the hardest to get off. Some of the pictures even ripped of the wallpaper and some ripped off the wall, creating holes. 

Sarah's hole in the wall

The stubborn screw

After that, we had to patch up the millions of holes on the walls. I was the chief spacklerer. I had to spread the spackle into the hole without taking up more wall and scrape it to fill up the hole. Then, Sarah arrived and she began to sand down the dried spackle. In the mean time, Connor was trying to get the white board and cork boards out from being screwed into the wall. Once the tape was taken off the wall and it was sanded down and speckled, Sarah and I tried to help Connor. He had gotten the entire white board out except for one screw that it was hanging by. So, Sarah got up on the ladder and used a crow bar and go the white board's last screw out by yanking with all of her force. She created a giant hole that we

haven't decided what to do with yet... but we got the screw out so thats all
that matters.

We were quite tired because that had taken about 3.5 hours to do. We all had other things to do that day and we all knew that the paining wasn't going to get done. Therefore, we moved the mess into the middle of the room and we put off the painting until the next week. Sadly, we left the room in worse condition than before, but the walls are ready to be painted for sure!

Next Week: 

We will be painting the walls next saturday, selling the furniture at my garage sale, and cleaning the mess that we have created in the room. Hopefully the walls will be looking perfect in no time!