Oh Guy, this one still has me laughing. i apologize, I'm not really laughing at you, but I just love your attitude. I need a little laughter right now, I'm in the middle of a hellish project I started kinda without really planning yesterday.
I've been meaning to gut my basement, which is HUGE, like 1200 sq ft, with a lot of rooms. It was finished with paneling in like 1972 or something. It gets wet down there, always has, and I have always meant to take everything out, but it's a huge job so I've procrastinated. Well, yesterday, I thought I'd take off one panel and see what it looked like. Uh oh. 8 hours, and like 100 trips up the stairs and out, and I'm about 1/4 of the way done completely demolishing it. There's mold around the lowest sections where the drywall met the floor behind the paneling, but thankfully it didn't climb beyond the lowest seam on the drywall, as all moisture was on the floor. Still, it's nasty, hard work, wearing a full face respirator and white tyvek suit. Sweaty, nasty, back breaking. I'm off to the dump with the first load here shortly, then back at it.
Why is this in my garden thread? Well, it's nice and springy outside, and I'm dying to be in the garden, but this was the big task at the top of my list for this year, and if I can get it all out, it can dry all summer and I can play in the garden feeling like I'm not neglecting the inside projects. Ugh. I wish I just messed up a row. What a HUGE mistake it was not gutting this when I bought the place almost 10 years ago.