Sheetrock isn't heavy, is it?

Sunday - Shopping day:

Now that we can see what we are dealing with, Sunday entails making our final shopping list and hitting "the Depot".

I should first point out that we are sleeping on an air mattress in the living room right now since the upstairs has a gaping hole in the floor and no insulation. We kind of have a big bunker with a plastic wall protecting us from the arctic horrors that lurk upstairs.

So, we wake up, a bit chilled but ready to roll. We start making our shopping list, hoping to head to the store by noon. But, the more we measure and figure out stuff we need, the more we realize we need. We don't actually make it to the store until 2:30 but no worries, we got a list, this should be fast, right?...

Wrong. What are you guessing? 2 hours, 3 hours? Nopers, we weren't hitting the checkout until 7:00. Phew, we are done, except now we have to get all this stuff home and our little Altima and Grand-Am aren't quite equipped for transporting sheetrock.

Here is the step by step of how one gets large supplies of construction materials home.

Step 1: Rent Truck.

Step 2: Home Depot Guy uses a forklift to put 27 sheets of garage sheetrock, 8 sheets bath drywall, 6 cement boards and 4 plywood sheets onto truck.

Step 3: Home Depot guy, Jake and Sue load up 1 2x6, 21 2x4's, 7 2x2's onto the truck.

Step 4: Jake starts truck.

Step 5: The truck makes a constant ear-splitting honking noise that is best described as the Jim Carrey "most annoying noise ever" which is telling us we are over the 3000 lb load limit.

Step 6: Home Depot Guy says as-a-matter-of-factly "Yeah, I knew this would be too heavy."

Step 7: Sue says to herself "Really? Didn't think to mention that gem, huh?" Jake says to himself "Hmmm, that means that, while shopping, we just moved over 3000 lbs of sheetrock by hand onto our cart. Perhaps we should have asked for the forklift to begin with... now we have to take it off..."

Step 8: Sue and Jake remove 1 2x6, 21 2x4's, 7 2x2's off of the truck. Annoying noise stops. Phew. We will come back for the rest. Employees go back inside.

Step 9: Jake sits in truck, ready to leave. HOOOONNNNNNKKKKKKK!!!!! Crud. Still haven't taken enough off yet.

Step 10: Take off 6 cement boards, 6 bathroom drywall. Test the weight, I think we are okay. But now it is time for "the Depot" to close. Sue and Jake get really grumpy.

Step 11: Decide we will leave behind remaining parts to pick up in the morning. Head home with current load.

Step 12: Remove 27 sheets garage sheetrock, 2 sheets bath drywall, 4 sheets plywood and put in garage.

Step 13: Collapse on Air Mattress. Time: 10:00 PM.

Lesson learned: We just bought about 2 tons of crap. Houses must be really heavy.

Here is a picture of our cargo (doesn't look like 3000 lbs):