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Speaking of Thinking Outside the Box, have you ever had one of those projects that balloons from one thing to another? [scared]
In December I woke up to the sound of a Squirrel inside the living room wall scratching at the sheetrock. I knew the point of entry was somewhere inside the boxed step of my split-level deck, but I could never figure out how they were getting inside the step until then (they were in there once before a couple years ago).
I pulled the stair tread to inspect the damage. It would be major surgery to the deck to repair it from the outside, so I blocked off their point of entry so I could tackle it in the spring. Nevertheless, I sheepishly put my hand in the hole and felt the nest made of wall insulation, and worst of all, the bare electrical wiring they had chewed through.
After a couple months of silence, they figured out how to get back in last week. This time I could hear the little bugger chewing on the electrical junction box--seeking the warmth of the house. I couldn't put it off any longer and decided to cut the drywall and fix it from the inside.
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I grabbed the round blade and depth stop shoe for Vecturo, drew layout lines on the wall, and cut out a large square from the sheetrock. It was no big surprise that it made an easy cutout that would be simple to replace and patch. I fixed the exterior hole, patched the wiring, and replaced 4 feet of insulation that had been pulled out to make a nest.
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I started mudding the patch, and that's were the project turned South. [eek] Between the Fireplace Surround Build and the squirrel, I now have drywall patches on all 3 walls of the living room.....time to seriously consider repainting the 20 year old walls.
The biggest impediment to repainting was the daunting task of removing the 9" wallpaper border around the 9-foot ceiling. That's when the epiphany hit me: how would Vecturo handle this with the knife-blade?
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I was totally shocked!! As fast as I could move the tool, it sliced the paper right off the wall. It took longer to move the ladder than it took to slice the area I could reach with the ladder. It was quite literally 1-second per blade swath. No tears, no scraps, no strays. What was left underneath was perfectly smooth and flush to the paint below it. I could have painted right over it, but I knew the sheen would telegraph through the paint because it was smoother than the painted wall below it. So I skim-coated drywall mud before painting.
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In December I woke up to the sound of a Squirrel inside the living room wall scratching at the sheetrock. I knew the point of entry was somewhere inside the boxed step of my split-level deck, but I could never figure out how they were getting inside the step until then (they were in there once before a couple years ago).
I pulled the stair tread to inspect the damage. It would be major surgery to the deck to repair it from the outside, so I blocked off their point of entry so I could tackle it in the spring. Nevertheless, I sheepishly put my hand in the hole and felt the nest made of wall insulation, and worst of all, the bare electrical wiring they had chewed through.
After a couple months of silence, they figured out how to get back in last week. This time I could hear the little bugger chewing on the electrical junction box--seeking the warmth of the house. I couldn't put it off any longer and decided to cut the drywall and fix it from the inside.
[attachthumb=1]
I grabbed the round blade and depth stop shoe for Vecturo, drew layout lines on the wall, and cut out a large square from the sheetrock. It was no big surprise that it made an easy cutout that would be simple to replace and patch. I fixed the exterior hole, patched the wiring, and replaced 4 feet of insulation that had been pulled out to make a nest.
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I started mudding the patch, and that's were the project turned South. [eek] Between the Fireplace Surround Build and the squirrel, I now have drywall patches on all 3 walls of the living room.....time to seriously consider repainting the 20 year old walls.
The biggest impediment to repainting was the daunting task of removing the 9" wallpaper border around the 9-foot ceiling. That's when the epiphany hit me: how would Vecturo handle this with the knife-blade?
[attachimg=3]
I was totally shocked!! As fast as I could move the tool, it sliced the paper right off the wall. It took longer to move the ladder than it took to slice the area I could reach with the ladder. It was quite literally 1-second per blade swath. No tears, no scraps, no strays. What was left underneath was perfectly smooth and flush to the paint below it. I could have painted right over it, but I knew the sheen would telegraph through the paint because it was smoother than the painted wall below it. So I skim-coated drywall mud before painting.
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