Drywall Installation: Sanding the Walls Ceilings
Sand the joint compound on your walls and ceilings until smooth and remove all excess dust with a damp rag or sponge.
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Drywall Installation: Measuring Estimating
This step helps you measure and estimate the amount of mold- and moisture-resistant PURPLE drywall you will need for your project.
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Theaster Gates addresses the crowd at the 2014 AIA Convention in Chicago.
The internationally-acclaimed artist, potter, educator and breaker of rules, Theaster Gates, addressed the 2014 AIA Convention in Chicago today and argued that his role, as well as that of artists and design professionals, is to push the envelope.
I dont feel constrained by being trained as a planner, Gates said. As a result Ive been breaking a lot of rules. In some ways, I know that my amateur tactics dont seem to be transformative at a city level, but architects, designers and planners can make the baby steps that lead to policy changes.
As a case study, Gates outlined one of his projects: Black Cinema House, a two-flat rescued by Gates at 69th Street and Dorchester on Chicagos South Side. It is now a theater hosting "screenings and discussions of films by and about people of the African diaspora, and offers video classes to neighborhood youth, teaching the next generation to make their own films and tell their own stories," according to the website. As the seasons of economic downturns were happening, I was able to acquire it very affordably, Gates said. It had been, not only an eyesore, but also an emotional sore in a neighborhood where wonderful people were living their lives and doing wonderful things.
Once acquired, however, Gates had a problem: no money to rehab it. So he pitched officials associated with a regular arts festival in Kassel, Germany, to fund the removal of the guts of the two-flat. Then he reinstalled them in a historic, but deteriorating building in Kassel.
In some ways, Kassel has the same problems that neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago have, Gates said. Gates used materials he described as, lathe, cheap drywall, and pissy carpet to create the installation abroad. He treated the materials as he would a brush or clay. There is a way in which I was imagining architectural practice not as a practice in itself, but also art, Gates said. Architecture was a raw material and that idea would allow me to deploy architecture as I would a brush. And back in Chicago, Gates was able to transform the two-flat into Black Cinema House.
The building has been an amazing asset to the South Side and has attracted people to a two-flat, from all around the world, to watch movies, Gates said. And its really cool. Today, cities need this kind of pushback from artists and design professionals, he argued.
The biggest part about artistic practice is that artists have been given permission to do things outside of the rules, Gates said. If there is an existing housing policy or zoning codes, then Im more likely to fight longer to see if those things can be stretched.
Drywall Installation: Securing the Ceiling with Fasteners
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Drywall Installation: How to Hang Walls
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Drywall Installation: Finishing Inside Corners
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Drywall Installation: Applying the Final Coat of Joint Compound
Using taping knives, apply joint compound over all of the joints and fastener heads and feather beyond the edge of the second coat for a smooth surface.
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Drywall Installation: Materials, Storage Handling
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Drywall Installation: Cutting for an Electrical Box
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Nearly everything on television is a guilty pleasure, a concept useful to viewers who need to explain away their addictions to certain shows, especially the trashiest stuff. The dumber the show, the bigger the guilt and the better the pleasure.
Ive had to watch so much TV over the past five years as a critic so much of it bad that I feel the poke of shame only when I watch a show in which real people make an honest attempt to finish a difficult household chore or a major project that I would never, ever want to do, especially in the summer months. Which is one reason why I derive some sick, lazy happiness from watching spouses argue with each other on DIY Networks Renovation Realities.
Buried deep down in the schedule of DIY (an offshoot of HGTV) and almost always a rerun, Renovation Realities couldnt be simpler: A homeowning couple (usually married, usually in flyover states) has decided to renovate a room in their house (usually the kitchen) completely on their own, having little to no practical experience in the construction biz.
The cameras are there to merely document what occurs; there is no handsome host in a tight T-shirt and tool belt to goad and guide them through each decision or to come to their rescue with his capable brawn. There is no crew to hammer and saw things to completion. There is no narration, save for some on-screen details (set in drab, white Courier type against a black screen) that tell the viewer how many days the homeowners have set aside to complete the work (usually vacation days from their jobs) and their projected budget.
In seven seasons of Renovation Realities, the show has rarely, if ever, included the scene known in the home-improvement genre as the reveal, because there is never anything to reveal, except excuses. After days of sweat and sore muscles, the subjects of Renovation Realities almost always concede defeat. They run out of time and money. The drywall is only half-finished. The granite guys didnt deliver the countertops. The tiles would not line up; the refrigerator wouldnt fit through the door. The mostly demolished wall that prevents the life-altering promise of the open floor plan had in fact masked all the plumbing from upstairs, which will now have to be rerouted by a professional.
Once in a great while, Renovation Realities is about a couple still young enough or childless enough or just happy-go-lucky enough to treat the entire project as a useful learning experience. They flirt their way through the dust of their demolition, laugh off the discovery of mouse turds and even affirm each other during the installation of new cabinets, a task that leads so many of the shows couples to swear at each other and burst into tears. Not so the lovebirds. Hammers fall on heads, cabinets are dropped on toes, drill bits are ruined, and still theres a charge in the air, not just from the bad wiring. The giggling and cute nicknames never stop. Get a room, you two. A finished room.
But, as any couple who has been together longer than a decade already knows, there is more often a dangerous frisson when things come unhinged. If you watch closely, usually between the first and second commercial breaks, you can see marital rage and desire flip as easily and excitedly as a circuit breaker. The guiltiest pleasure of all, I suppose, would be for a couple on Renovation Realities to get so angry at each other that they drop their sanders and sledgehammers and make wild love, right then and there, on the Formica countertops theyre so eager to rip away. Like any dedicated voyeur, I keep hoping.
Renovation Realities usually finds the couple whose darker dynamics and frayed nerves get the best of them. By the third or fourth day, she just wants it done, he just wants it done right, and they no longer care that we are seeing them at their worst. Their children keep wailing from another room . Would divorce be easier? Would death?
The kitchen (or the new deck or the finished basement) has become a do-or-die fantasy, a vision gleaned from reading too many shelter magazines and watching too many home-improvement shows that made it all look far too simple. Im never happier than when someone on Renovation Realities lets out a stream of obscenities (all of them bleeped out) and storms off. I feel bad about how much I love watching people melt down.
In these fixer-upper homes occupied by fixer-upper Americans, a viewer sees the horrible psychic toll in the mythology of ownership. Its the only home-improvement show that dissuades you from undertaking any project at all; everything is fine the way it is. Renovation Realities is a 30-minute excuse to leave the to-do list undone.
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After 7 Years, Renovation Realities Remains a Favorite Guilty Pleasure