The Dry Wall Has Landed....

The drywall has landed....

November 11th -- I got home at about 4:30 this afternoon and was surprised to see a large truck with a crane and a ton of dry wall in front of the house.  I drove around back to put my car in the garage and then I sent a text to the contractor.  We asked that the dumpster be emptied to make way for the drywall delivery, but the dumpster wasn't emptied today.  This was not going to be an easy delivery.  Just about 90 sheets of drywall needed to be delivered with most of it going to the upper level.

The supervisor of the drywall delivery crew came by yesterday and was perplexed...they couldn't bring the truck in the alley behind the house because there are overhead wires that would interfere with the crane.  He decided that they would have to haul the drywall from the front to the rear of the house and bring it up on ladders through the covered deck.  The drywall sheets are heavy and that seemed like a horrible job.

The crew of three guys decided that they would simply remove the double-hung windows on the second floor and they could get the crane close to the window and they would bring the drywall sheets through the window below.

Here are photos of the truck, the crane and the stacks of drywall and boxes of mud.

The crane is grabbing the drywall and the operator uses a remote control device to operate the crane.

Here is the loaded crane as it is being moved to the front door for the drywall that needs to be on the main level.

The sun was beginning to set, but the crew had some spot lights on the crane and truck and they were determined to deliver their load. 

The following sequence of photos speaks for its self as they moved the bundles of drywall closer to the house.

After they loaded the drywall sheets on the main level, the crane grabbed the first of what would be several more loads of drywall and was positioned to the window opening on the upper level where several crew members were pulling the drywall sheets in through the window opening.

These photos are really dark as the sun was setting, but if you look closely you can see the crane is now positioned outside the upper level window and the drywall sheets are "hanging" right outside the window opening.  The crew is on the other side of the window ready to pull the drywall inside, as shown below.

Here is a view of the delivery crew as they pulled the drywall sheets through the window opening and were loading them on a dolly to stack them in the master bedroom

Here is the dolly that they then rolled into the master bedroom

This shot shows the remote control device that this delivery crew member was using to operate the crane while he was INSIDE the house.  I have to admit that was pretty cool.

The following photos show the stacks of drywall that was delivered to the hallway outside the master bedroom, the master bathroom and the master bedroom

Here is a stack of drywall in the guest suite

This stack is in the galley kitchen

These two photos show the drywall stacks in the galley kitchen and the gathering room.

And, here is the stack of boxes of drywall mud, tape and other stuff to make walls.

It took a little over an hour for the three guys to unload and position all the drywall sheets and boxes of mud in a the various rooms of the house on the upper and main level.  They started when the sun was beginning to go down and they were done when it was pitch dark.

The crew members were very nice and pretty funny.  I told them that they were better to watch than television and they started laughing and said they should make a reality TV show.


Since the drywall delivery was expected for tomorrow, not today, we'll see whether the drywall installation begins tomorrow or Friday....stay tuned.