So that's the weirdest, here's the scariest (same house, no less):So if you don't recognize it: that's a ratcheting come-a-long (like you would use to pull a truck out of the mud) in the second floor, secured to a beam.

Owners trying to rehab themselves often don't know little tricks such as adding a spoonful of dish soap to their mud to help eliminate air bubbles (and thereby, an additional coat), or that the process of coalescence in exterior paint is negatively affected by an ambient and/ or surface temperature below 50 degrees.Being from Cleveland, unfortunately I can't much help with the Milwaukee area.

She personally tried to mud, paint and texture one of the hallways and it was not a success.

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then you would need to redo the firewall which the last time I had to do that required insulation and two sheets of 5/8 drywall (literally a wall with one 5/8, taped and mudded then a second sheet of 5/8 over the top to create a 2 hour firewall between the units).  

Maybe it's just a stick in the mud.

I was rehabbing one last February and we had to bring in heaters and light a fire in the fireplace to get the mud to dry.

A friend had been hyping me up to do this adult obstacle course with him for weeks . . . it was going to be one of those cool outdoor places where you're climbing, crawling through the mud and so on.

Yeah, I need to be there to make sure everything is the way I want it.And I certainly don't need to watch my drywall guy mud... that's booorrriinnnggg.

I am just asking for options and solutions that I can employ to protect my interest from undesirable things that can happen (such as those you mentioned.)