Adventures In Drywall.

Wanna know what happens when you buy a house from Hillbillies ?

You find a large, spray painted mural of Bugs Bunny with tits on the underside of drywall ( if it can even be considered drywall.....) that you rip out of your stairwell.

As The Mister pulled out a large section of " drywall " to throw out into the heap of all the other " drywall " he'd ripped down I was all like......
" Hey, wait a sec.....is that ? Is that Bugs Bunny ? "

The Mister flipped the piece he was holding around and said;
" Yep, that's Bugs alright. Looks like Bugs has got a big rack too... "

The Mister went back to ripping down the " drywall " and upon exposing the interior wall he began to laugh out loud. It was not one of those ha-ha-what-a-funny-joke laughs....it was more like a oh-my-god-just-when-I-thought-it-couldn't-get-any-worse laughs.

So me, having no previous experience with drywall, went over to inquire about the source of the Funny.

Me: What ?

The Mister: See this ? **Points to exposed interior wall **

Me: Yeah ? ** not noting anything peculiar about the exposed interior wall **

TM: See the seams ? ** motions to long, horizontal seams **

Me: Yeah ? ** still not catching the drift, but what else is new**

TM: They put 2 foot sections of drywall in horizontally, see....there's like 12, 2 foot sections?

Me: Yeah ?

TM: That's how idiots drywall. It should be as big a section of drywall you can get so you have as few seams as possible.

Me: Oh.

TM: You know that show " If These Walls Could Talk ", well if this house could talk it would probably be the musings of four drunk hillbillies talking about beer and titties.

I'd post pictures of our drywall demo and reconstruction, but our camera decided to die today.

And I should clarify why I kept putting " drywall " in quotes. After ripping down the circa 1962 wallpaper in the stairwell I could not quite figure out what the material was that had previously had the wallpaper stuck to it. It certainly wasn't traditional drywall, it could best be described as compressed layers of cardboard and.....oh, I don't know.......old subflooring ?
Well, whatever it was is not in a heap in our shed awaiting a trip to the big drywall heaven in the sky.

XO
Bunny