1 - 3 Nov 2017
The last few areas of the living room have been lathed and ready for plaster for a couple of years. Somehow, they've never been 'the next thing to do', something else has always taken precedence. But, as of today, they have finally reached the top of our priority list, and Dave started Wednesday morning by making mixes.
The last few areas of the living room have been lathed and ready for plaster for a couple of years. Somehow, they've never been 'the next thing to do', something else has always taken precedence. But, as of today, they have finally reached the top of our priority list, and Dave started Wednesday morning by making mixes.
One tiny section to do on the turn of the stairs, where I ran out of plaster last time.
The main stretch, including the area behind the tool dresser, swathed in a sheet in this photo, to keep the tools from getting plastered!
So the work starts (after masking off the electrical fittings).
When we moved the tool dresser, we found these two sections that had never been lathed, having been lost behind the dresser; and on removing the 'temporary' plasterboard above, which we had put in to protect the straw bales stored in the living room from the risk of fire from the kitchen (back in 2012), we found a third unlathed section.
By this point, the last few laths strewn amongst our offcuts were nearly exhausted, and it took some scrabbling around to get enough wood of approximately the right length and width to finish the section. Luckily the plaster will hide all the bodging.
Work proceeds ...
and is completed.
Recently I found a roll of 4cm wide masking tape, which is ruinously expensive, but makes it a doddle to mask off our 7cm wide beams. As this was a small area, in a high profile location, we decided to try masking the wood, which we haven't bothered with before. Unmasked wood requires a lot of washing down, and remains 'limewashed' looking. We'll see how this turns out in comparison.
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