Skim Coat...
The house my parents bought had a roof leak where a room addition was connected to the main house. It was patched a few times over the years and by the time I inherited the place, a small section of plaster in the dining room broke through. I didn't have the money at the time to re-roof and patched it again a few times.Eventually, the entire roof was replaced and has been holding up more than 16 years. I had the roofer reinforce the trusses from inside and that changed the weight load to the structure causing a stress crack in the ceiling that I lived with all these years.
I'm in renovation mode cleaning and painting and repaired the crack, but the area I fixed is visible to the existing work. The original stucco/plaster had a sandy texture and the patch is smooth. Having the experience of reworking a ceiling in 3 rooms of a condo (yeah, the one I bought last year) I decided to 'skim coat' the entire ceiling of the dining room to remove all the trowel marks of the original textured work.
Using slow setting drywall compound and an 8" drywall knife, I smoothed out the old repair and any irregular texture. Since it wasn't too bad to begin with, most of the coating I applied was as thin as 2mm. It troweled on pretty nice and was starting to dry by the time I packed up for the weekend.
The 4th is Thursday and I'm planning a 4 day weekend to get a few more things done.
For comparison, I troweled on 1-1/2 gallons yesterday and the condo renovation was 11 gallons total.
The pain is back!
When I got up this morning, my neck muscles were complaining... I needed aspirin for breakfast.
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I was lucky as a landlord, my tenants were stone masons and as long as I supplied the materials they built me a beautiful stone wall with a HUGE fireplace. Best investment ever all the way around.
When I moved back in after the tenants, well I blogged about having to run the AC just so I could use the fireplace. Of course during the winters we may get a few nights where it actually got cold enough for the fire. However building a fire didn't come easy to me.
I will be glad when your house sells. All this hard work is killing me, I want to hear FUN blogs.
Our original plans were for her to go to China (as she does each year) to see her son and family and I would 'escape' for 2 weeks and return with her.
I got my 10 year visa so I'm able to enter the country with no restrictions.
For now, I'll have to wait until next year...
Nonetheless, I hope the symptoms won't persist beyond today.
It's usually yogurt and fruit that starts my day.