Hit the 1,000 square foot mark on my adobe patch job today

Been tuckpointing this old adobe wall in the North Valley off and on for about 6 months. Today I counted the bags of mud I've mixed, came to 38 total. That's when I realized I'd covered over a thousand square feet of cracked mortar, one trowel load at a time. My grandpa used to say adobe work is about patience, not speed, and I finally get what he meant. The first 200 feet took me almost two months, the last 300 went by in three weekends. Anyone else keep track of how much surface they've repaired in an old house, or am I just too numbers-brained about this stuff?

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elizabeth1023d ago

Tbh, I'm impressed you even counted the bags. I tried tracking my drywall patch progress once and gave up around bag four because I kept losing the tally in my head. Ngl, my method is just staring at the wall and guessing, which is why my "it's almost done" estimates are always off by about six months. Honestly, if I had your patience with numbers, I'd probably be a lot better at this whole renovation game. Guess some of us are just built for trowel work and not math.