Jim found very cool special switches for the fan and light in both the living room and kitchen. He got the living room switch installed today.
But today was all about plaster! We planned to start in the second bedroom. This is the first room that Jim put drywall in, so he learned some tricks along the way. Most important is the fact that Jim has to use the rubber mallet on areas where there are pancake screws to push them into the drywall a bit so everything is flat. Plus, steel is a whole different beast than putting drywall on wood studs. So I've been going through rooms in down times and making sure that no screws are above the drywall plane. Jim spent time in this room going over everything before he started with plaster.
I love how Jim has a tool for everything - this opens the lid on the plaster buckets.
Since the buckets have been sitting around, Jim first mixed the plaster.
He wanted to do taping first, but that requires adding water to the plaster to make a thinner consistency. So he used up some of the plaster in the bucket on some corners.
Working on the other corner...
Working out in the hall...
And doing the corner in the kitchen.
Now that the plaster level is down in the bucket, time to add some water and mix it up.
Strumming on the old banjo!
Okay, so the banjo is really used for putting plaster on the tape!
Putting up the first tape...
Smoothing it all out...
Taping the rest of the joints on the sloped wall...
Doing the 45 degree joint - Jim said there is special tape for these joints that he may investigate.
This wall is all done...
Working on the wall joints...
Jim had to be creative with his stepstools!
He put a plank between the stepstools to reach the top of this longer wall...
Jim only spent 2 hours plastering and got 3 walls totally done plus the wall joints on the other wall. It looks amazing and it's so exciting that we have plaster on the wall!
Although it's a little nerve-wracking, Jim kept the heater on in the apartment at a very low temperature just to make sure the area stays above freezing.
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