Just when the paint is finally off my hands and I can show up to meetings without looking like I paint on the side for extra income, the dining room project starts. This weekend we cleared everything out and I sealed the room off from the rest of the house (however dust still gets out!). I started by working on the 1 inch gap near the steam pipe going upstairs. I had to stabilize the ceiling to the lath board and work on filling the cracks. Next, the same process in the living room had to happen in the dining room. Round 1 is now complete, with additional sanding/painting needing to take place to finish it off. My goal is to have it complete no later than February 20. Repairing these ceilings get them looking much better, however, they still have imperfections that one can expect from plaster that is 80 years old. I'm finally over trying to make them look PERFECT (since that cannot happen when you repair plaster, unless you are very very skilled or have lots of money) but happy that they look 100 times better then they used to look. I'm tempted to hang a sign in the house that warns people not to blurt out, "hey, your ceiling has some imperfections" because come on, I know they do! But take a peek at them before we started and you could see lath board and giant cracks! I'll deal with some imperfections! Stay tuned for updates.
