We pushed hard last Friday and Saturday to prepare the basement for drywalling. Friday, we worked until 9pm, and Saturday we went from 9:30am to 6:30am. Our friend Jay was scheduled to be in our basement by 9am Sunday to assist with drywalling the ceiling, so it had to be ready. The only thing we didn't get done was the vapour barrier, which waited until Sunday morning due to renovation burnout.
The final steps were actually all pretty easy with the newly acquired table saw. Building out the framing for the windows was a bit tricky due to the windows not being perfectly flush with the framing, but it was nothing that couldn't be fixed with the jigsaw. I used some scrap plywood that I had leftover from a previous project, and the resulting gap was big enough to use Roxul insulation instead of sprayfoam.
Build up
Step up
Attaching the final boot was a piece of cake, and Lesley managed to complete the rest of the insulating as I worked on the final bits of woodworking. While we did not get the vapour barrier up prior to Sunday morning, we were nevertheless feeling ready to begin drywalling.
Enter Jay.
Putting up the vapour barrier was actually a lot easier with a third pair of hands, and it went very quickly once Jay arrived first thing Sunday morning. Before long, we were putting the first sheet up on the ceiling. It went fairly quickly, but we were slowed down somewhat by the bulkheads, as expected.
After a full day, we managed to get about three quarters of the ceiling done.
Measuring for the bulkhead
One side down, one to go