Holey Crap Weekend Recap

Happy Monday!!  I hope your weekend was full of tomfoolery and shenanigans because that's what weekends are for, amiright?   Before we get started with our weekend shenanigans, in case anyone wants to see what $6K looks like:

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Anyhoo.

I told y'all Friday about putting the extra hole in the bedroom wall for insulation.  Welp, that led to me knocking on the back wall of the closet (the other side of that wall faces the hallway but is attached to the dbag's wall on the one side) and when the hollowness of no insulation echoed back, I asked the Mr to get the multi-tool out again.

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I jammed the mineral wool insulation in every crevice since I could clearly see the stud that attaches down to his place.  

The Mr put support wood behind the cut out and screwed them back in place with drywall screws.  Within an hour of me texting "hey, you gotta minute" to drywall being installed, he didn't even have a chance to flop sweat!  😆  Then I grabbed the acoustic caulk to fill in the gaps because I wanted zero chance of additional sound leakage.  A few hours later, I checked on it and as usual, it had shrunk back (despite it saying it doesn't do that) so I added more to level the gaps and let it sit overnight.  

Some construction dude is stumbling upon this post and clutching his pearls toolbelt.  Breathe my dude, at least it's not your house.

By Sunday morning I had the second thicker coat of mud on it which meant this closet wall project was going to go into Monday meaning I wouldn't be able to paint until tomorrow.  It's fine, just irritating more than anything.  

That brings me to my other project.

So you know how closets have those two big "stair shelves" when the closet goes over a staircase?  Well, all I could think of now was how that was hollow too.  The problem is that would need a TON of insulation to fill that area in and while I was down, I know that suggestion would've made the Mr twitch.  When I noticed the carpet covering the stair shelves was not even attached, I purchased these mats that others have used not just for auto sound deadening but appliances and stuff with success.  My goal is vibration control and with him slamming his damn dryer door or microwave in the middle of the night like he's trying to slam into the next dimension, I needed to pull every available stop.  

We removed the baseboards on that side and I used the acoustic sealant to fill any potential gaps and gave it some time to set then I laid the pads down.  

I used the box I had to at least do the plywood part and some of the drywall.  The carpet got vacuumed and put back into place.  

Unfortunately, I didn't think of the drywall fronts until the next day so I'll be doing that part today when they arrive and the plan is to get some thin bead board to cover the ugly logo that shows on the drywall part.  Of course there is outgassing which the manufacturer claims takes two days to not be a problem.  (Yeah right.  Given the headache I had right now, I won't hold my breath though when asked the question about smell on Amazon most people said there wasn't a smell (lie) or it dissipated quickly. )  When I've got the rest of it laid and the baseboards/beadboard on, I will caulk the hell out of any gaps to hopefully contain any potential smell.  I took the backing off of the sheets and laid it under the carpet since there's no pad to hopefully keep that from seeping through.  I'm sure I've probably just created some new problem for myself but for now I'm hopeful until there's reason not to be.  😏

We will have essentially insulated the entire closet as best we could until the drywall guys can get back to us.  One is coming this Thursday I think and we're hoping to hear from the other guy the Mr had more faith in soon so that he can do his estimate as well.  Ideally, I want this done in the next 30 days if possible so we can have time to paint everything and install baseboards and stuff.   I'm thinking of getting more of those mats and cutting them to go under the baseboards against the stair wall.  Obviously, I'll see how the smell thing evens out before doing that.  

I know this may sound like overkill to some people or "why don't you just move?" (like it's just so easy to do) but until you've been adrenalized out of the little REM sleep you might get or have to pop Benadryl for any chance of slumber, you'll do what you need to do.  More people live in attached living than free standing so this isn't just an isolated problem.   Once we find something that actually works (or seeing what didn't), I will probably put together official posts on the subject because I know by my own searches that it's hundreds of thousands of people suffering mental health decline because of a-hole neighbors.

It felt like the weekend swirled down the pooper and suddenly it was Sunday night.  Pffft.

What nonsense did you get into this weekend?

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