Choose your drywall-finish early onTo obtain a good drywall-finish it takes a lot of work. Even at that, our contractor was exceptionally fast and his crew finished up in record time. A good wallboard contractor can have your drywall put up in a couple days, for a modest 1800 sq ft home. Once the board is up, then the drywall finisher goes to work slapping mud all over the place. When the drywall is put up, the house is starting to look like a home, and you begin to get the feeling that it is finally coming together. I call it the “feel good” time. The following picture is dark, for which I'm sorry. It does show some of the mud piled in the middle of the room. Remember that half of the mud has already been used throughout the house. 
It took over 1 Ton of mud for our entire house. The mud has to be kept warm so if you are “mudding” in the winter, you can figure what has to happen. In ourur casem it was in the winter and so our furnace had to be on, because we didn't have a generator or another heat source. Since the insulation had not been blown in the attic, (because of no wallboard) then the heat was escaping straight up up up. “right out the roof”. And so our heat bill that month was monstrous. TIP: Get your wallboard done in the spring or fall, before it turns cold. Then you can get the attic insulation in before the cold too.
At this point you could almost paint right now, but when you texture the walls, they still have to apply the texture over the surface of walls and ceilings – everywhere. There are different drywall-finish textures that can be put on the wall, or you can have a plain finish if you want. The tape, mud and texture sub often has to wear stilts to do the ceiling, especially in high ceilinged areas. Ceilings are often textured, but in our case, we chose the Sante Fe finish on all walls and ceilings, except we didn't antique it when we painted. The drywall man was happy about our choice, because that particular finish hides a lot, even tho it does take more mud. (I'm sure they like that too, if they are supplying the materials)
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