I forgot to post yesterday.
From time to time one just needs to clean up the mess and re-evaluate the progress. I will still have some more scraping and repair work to do, but to get a good sense of where I am, I’ve shoveled the floor and wiped down the ceiling and walls twice. One photo shows a close up of the kind of damage I’ll be mudding later. Later when I went back into the room with a flashlight to examine the walls inside the closet, I realized how much fine dust I had stirred up during my cleaning, so I took a picture of that too, just because it looked really cool. In the last photo you’ll see I’ve added a couple of hunks of gyproc into a few of the biggest spaces where I removed plaster. This let’s me use far less plaster and speeds up the repair of these large areas. You might think that I’m really bad at measuring and cutting drywall, but in fact I’m trying to leave enough space between the gyproc and the original plaster both so that I can key in the plaster that I’ll be adding, and in order to feather between varying wall thicknesses (remember, there’s nothing flat in 107 year old houses). The plaster I’ll be using is very different from drywall mud, primarily because it has fibreglass in it to create a very strong product when it hardens, even in applications of 1/2″ or thicker over wide areas, which would be problematic with drywall mud.
