Brook Rd, Day One

Today was the first day of work at Brook Rd. We have been hired to replace their lanai ceiling and repaint the exterior of the house including all the doors. 

The day started by pressure washing the exterior of the house including the lanai, porch and all the recessed windows and doors. To ensure that the new paint will bond with the walls, some areas were washed to reveal bare wall from where the last paint had not adhered well.

This is an example of the paint being washed to bare concrete

After pressure washing, we trenched out the entire exterior of the house. This will allow us to paint below ground level so that when we push the dirt back against the house there will be no painted grass and no breaks in the paint where painters usually stop, revealing a 1" space on the wall where they did not paint.

The final job of the day, prior to cleaning up, was to remove the ceiling from the lanai.

The ceiling just prior to drywall removal

We started by laying out drop cloths to capture the majority of the debris and then removed the ceiling fans and put them safely out of the way. Once this was done, we were able to start tearing down the drywall to reveal the ceiling rafters beneath.

A piece of Drywall on the way down

Once all the Drywall was down and loaded in the back of the truck ready to be taken away for disposal, we were left with hundreds of nails and screws that the previous contractor had used to attach the drywall to the rafters with. Cue an hour of de-nailing. 
 

Clean ceiling rafters ready for new ceiling boards

Tomorrow we will start priming the new ceiling boards, as well as taping off windows, removing old caulk, removing the fall pipes for painting and filling all cracks.