It has thrown up a few surprises, such as realising that the ceiling is not properly fixed in place. It appears that whoever plasterboarded the ceiling just nailed the boards to the existing ceiling, rather than to the joists themselves. The consequence if this is that, if you climb a ladder, you can push the ceiling upwards by about an inch! The plan is to screw it properly to the joists and then hopefully, at some point in the future, finish it off with coving.
The other surprise was the amount of woodchip wallpaper that I found hiding underneath the paint yesterday. That was another couple of hours of my life that I'll never get back! Large swathes of it was (very helpfully covered in Polyfilla, meaning that we weren't quite sure how far we had to strip the paper back. It was a bit of trial and error!
If anyone in the area would like a brilliant plasterer, ours comes very highly recommended:
Palace Plastering
Looking good, I am really impressed 3 bedrooms nearly completed. After bed 2 what is next?? can't wait ... Uncle Stew
ReplyDeleteHopefully it'll mean that we can start tackling our lounge/diner which is still full of boxes :)working our way down!
ReplyDeleteKate xx
What no more updates on the raggedy house!! I understand bedroom 2 is complete what does it look like??
ReplyDeleteUncle Stew