11/19/2022
Just finished a huge garage! There is a lot going on here. There were about 10 or 12 ceiling patches next to sprinklers for the fire system being updated. Half of the garage was finished with texture, but the other half was not finished. All tape lines, nail holes, dents, lines, and blemishes were all showing.
The piping was entirely exposed. Sewage drains, water lines, gas lines, air conditioner lines and all of the mechanical. 10 foot ceilings, and maybe about 1000 square foot garage or more. 3 beams to be wrapped in sheet rock. Two beams were needing framing to box in gas pipes, drains and water pipes.
One post needed to be framed and furred out for the sheetrock to meet on even surfaces. It had some really bulky and gnarly brackets that needed to be avoided at the bottom as well! There was a big concrete slab that needed to be framed with a roto hammer and concrete screws and then have sheetrock added.
The cables that you see in the picture with the holes in the ceiling where the cable was going up above the beams and then dropping back down. The cable guys ran those cables through every condo's unit and garage that way. The cable could not be disconnected to feed the wire through, so in a 50 foot section, I cut the ceiling open and hid the cable in the ceiling. The holes in the walls on both sides of the garage, where the cable comes into her unit from the last, and then through her wall into the next unit. Those holes needed to be extended into the corner and the cable pinned up out of view and behind the framing that would eventually hide that cable entirely.
All of the heating and mechanical was being left exposed, so the sheetrock was finished to the metal with caulk and very careful mudding. The entire garage took about 15 sheets of fresh sheet rock, about 100 feet of framing, about 1500 square feet of fixing mudding and taping, and then texturing everything at the end.