Drywalling the shop

It took a couple weeks to get Sheetrock up.  I did most of the ceiling solo, and had help from my friend Brook for the walls.  I used a drywall lift for the ceiling, and the newer "lightweight" drywall made this a lot easier to do.  I don't think I could lift 12' sheet of regular drywall onto the lift, but the lightweight stuff was manageable (but still heavy).  The ceiling took close to 2 weeks, but like I said it was mostly solo.  Thee walls we did in 2.5 days.  It was a lot of work, but we had a good system.  We ran seams vertical as the SIPs panels don't need the extra stiffness form running them horizontal like typical framed construction.  This made it a little challenging to get them into place, but we made a simple frame from 2x4s to support them as we tilted them up.  Would have been impossible solo, but worked well with 2 guys.

Here was putting up the plastic vapor barrier before Sheetrock.  My friend tom helped with this. He's tall.  That helped a lot :-)

Here's my highly skilled helper taping off electrical boxes to the vapor barrier

Not a ton of pics of the drywall job.  It's drywall, you know what it looks like... These are near the end.

 Then I hired out the taping and mudding.  Sometimes, I actually do know where my limits are, and this is one.  I am lousy at it, and it would have taken forever to do it, so I got a guy that Brook had used previously with great reviews on Angie's list to do it.  It took him about a week to wrap it up.  I can only imagine how long it would have taken me...  He wrapped up last weekend 9-14-13.

Now I'm wrapping up final interior details and masking to get ready to paint this weekend.  Then I can get lights up and FINALLY be able to use it without having to keep it all cleared out all the time to allow this work to proceed...