So quick tip: if your ever using a trailer to transport some materials back to your house and some guy at Bunnings gives you a few meters of skinny white string to secure it... don't just settle for that; get some more rope and make sure nothing is going to move. Learning this lesson half way home when you turn a corner and almost lose your load is not worth the worry.
It was time to plasterboard at my place, I went to Bunnings and I got myself 13 new sheets of plasterboards and I drove it home, I practiced my trailer skills reversing it up to my back porch and we unloaded the sheets into my lounge room. In an earlier post I spoke about things getting worse before they got better, now finally it was time for things to start getting better.
Each sheet needs to be glued and then nailed into position but not before being cut to fit its final position. I have never really done any plaster boarding before (with the exception of patching a few small dings) so this was quite interesting and fairly challenging. I will keep you up to date in future posts on how well we've pulled it off, I'm a little concerned that once we've set and sanded, we will find that the walls look fairly uneven, fingers crossed it all works fine!
Putting up the new plasterboard made one thing very clear; I spoke in an earlier post about cutting away the rubbish old plasterboard to make way for the new and how the same principle can apply to making a change in your life. There were several situations where I had tried to cut away as little of the old plaster board as possible; thinking I can just fit the new board around the old and save on materials, this did not work as well as I had hoped. I found myself going back and cutting away more of the old board because the other way just wasn't going to happen. Often I catch myself making the same mistake as a person and as a Christian: there are times when I know I have to cut parts of myself out to make way for something better. I need to get rid of a habit or an attitude, sometimes a temptation. Even though God makes it clear I need to get rid of it I think to myself 'well this bit around the edge is pretty good I'll keep that bit, Gods new thing can easy fit in around that' or 'I need to stop that habit but the occasional dabble would be fine as long as I don't get too involved again' It’s usually the case, as with the plasterboard that trying to make the new piece fit around the remaining old bits is even more trouble than it would have been to get rid of them and ends up making a huge mess. That’s what I’ve found anyway!
Once again a big thanks to Mum who always seems to get stuck with the worst jobs, I want to re-use most of the original skirting and trim once the new plasterboard is in, unfortunately having pulled them all off they now need to be cleaned up and have all the nails removed. An annoying job done well!
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