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She is going to KILL me!

mogley98
Long story short I was mudding some walls in the living room to prep for painting after some repairs. It was awful slow going using my stick sander with sheet rock sanding paper soooooo I grabbed my power sander.

OH LORD big mistake, I told her to stay in her she room and I will clean this up, it took about fifteen minutes or more just to be able to see, I tried using the shop vac which blew the dust all over so I wet wiped from top to bottom. Took about 10 rinses to finally get the floor clean. Probably in the next six months I'll get all this dust up.

Might have been easier to set fire to the house and let the insurance build a new one :(
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  • Marc1301
    You need a sander with a HEPA vac attachment for that kind of work,....of course you know that NOW I bet.[:D]
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  • remingtonoaks
    Yep... Most women just don't understand that a man's got to be a man...
    It's a good thing my wife understood, I would have hated to bury her before her time
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  • allen griggs
    I built an addition onto my log cabin two years ago. And to connect it to the main house, I built a 14 x 12 foot "dogtrot." Just a framed hallway with a bathroom in it. I did all the labor and there is lots of it, building a custom log cabin.

    And the fiancee said "I got all the wood I want with that log addition. I want sheet rock in the dogtrot."

    And I said, "You can have all the sheetrock that you hire somebody else to install, and to sand and finish."

    I hate doing sheetrock. Well she changed her mind and we have board and batten white pine in the dogtrot, looks pretty good to me.
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  • grumpygy
    Tim the tool Man "More power"
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  • dav1965
    I too have made this mistake you are talking about.
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  • NeoBlackdog
    Something I learned years ago about sheetrock is that you want to keep your sanding to a bare minimum. It's a whole lot easier and cleaner to apply another thinned out coat of mud to take out any ridges/depressions than it is to sand/clean up.
    When the first coat is dry use your mud knife to scrape off any large bits and then coat it again. Keep doing that until it is almost perfect and then hit it lightly with one of those little 320 grit sanding sponges. Very little dust when done this way.
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  • diver-rig
    quote:Originally posted by NeoBlackdog
    Something I learned years ago about sheetrock is that you want to keep your sanding to a bare minimum. It's a whole lot easier and cleaner to apply another thinned out coat of mud to take out any ridges/depressions than it is to sand/clean up.
    When the first coat is dry use your mud knife to scrape off any large bits and then coat it again. Keep doing that until it is almost perfect and then hit it lightly with one of those little 320 grit sanding sponges. Very little dust when done this way.

    Wet that sanding sponge first, and even less dust.
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  • spasmcreek
    couple hairline cracks in sheet rock and texture at the lake place...thanks to Oklahoma and se Kansas earthquakes .paneling next time... NO more sheetrock
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  • hdcolt51
    So this is the reason for your answer when I ask if you were having fun the other night.?? Will you be free for cocktails on Friday [:D]
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  • jerrywh818
    Buy her a new shotgun.
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  • mogley98
    According to my insurance company paneling can raise your rates, I didn't ask by how much

    quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
    couple hairline cracks in sheet rock and texture at the lake place...thanks to Oklahoma and se Kansas earthquakes .paneling next time... NO more sheetrock
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  • retroxler58
    quote:Originally posted by dav1965
    I too have made this mistake you are talking about.
    Marriage? [:D]
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  • retroxler58
    quote:Originally posted by diver-rig
    quote:Originally posted by NeoBlackdog
    Something I learned years ago about sheetrock is that you want to keep your sanding to a bare minimum. It's a whole lot easier and cleaner to apply another thinned out coat of mud to take out any ridges/depressions than it is to sand/clean up.
    When the first coat is dry use your mud knife to scrape off any large bits and then coat it again. Keep doing that until it is almost perfect and then hit it lightly with one of those little 320 grit sanding sponges. Very little dust when done this way.

    Wet that sanding sponge first, and even less dust.

    DING DING DING
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  • 7.62x39Lover
    Oh Dear!
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