Tag: #plasterrepairs

Ceiling Fixes

Natalie’s Room

The Pink Room/Natalie’s Room had a basketball size piece of plaster that had fallen off the ceiling. Most likely due to water damage. Obviously, that was a main repair Brandon tackled first upstairs. The rest of the plaster on the ceiling and walls was in good shape except for the normal cracks. The closets in all the bedrooms upstairs were the worst for cracks. I think that was due to the angles and temperature fluxes in those areas.

The reason Morgan chose the room with the smaller closet. I guess she thought we weren’t going to fix it?

Just like with the cracks in the walls, this had to get worse before it got better. Brandon made the hole larger until the plaster was tight with the lath on the ceiling.

I’m pretty sure this was about his stopping point for making it larger.

After this point, he used some plaster to start mending the hole. The plaster was hard to work with because it set so fast. This was also one of the first projects he did. I’m guessing if he did it now, he would be much faster at applying the plaster. After one layer of plaster and sanding, I’m pretty sure he moved to mud for the next layer. I believe it took three layers before he was happy with the blending and sanding.

Checking out his handy work.

We have primed and painted it. You can’t tell it was ever there. And now Morgan is questioning her decision about room choice. 😉

Looks pretty darn good for his first ceiling plaster repair.

Morgan’s Room

The Blue Room/Morgan’s Room didn’t have a hole in it, but we could see where there was water damage on the ceiling and when we pushed up on the plaster, there was a bubble formed.

No hole, but still needed work.

Brandon really didn’t want to cut out the plaster (Natalie’s room was a lot of messy, dusty work looking up at a ceiling) so he researched ways he could repair it without cutting any out. I’m pretty sure this is the video he watched and read from on how to make the repair. He got two packs of these from Ace, not Amazon, though. 🙂

It is secured to the lath and ready for mudding and sanding.
This is from a different angle but you can see that it’s covered up and looks pretty good.

Green Room

Ugh, the green room. It (and Morgan’s room) had wallpaper. Didn’t really realize it until we started doing the crack repairs and it peeled. At first we weren’t that concerned about it. The girls had a blast using the various putty knives to peel it from the ceilings and the walls.

Besides throwing boxes over the banister, this was probably their favorite task.
Yes, Natalie was right up there helping to peel it off, too. Neither girls seem to have a fear of heights or ladders. The floor was COVERED with wallpaper shreds.

After we peeled off everything we could get with the putty knives, Brandon went over it with his sander to catch any other edges. Then did some mudding to remove any ridges. So we thought it was good to go for priming and painting. BUT when we started priming the ceiling (and the walls), that dang (keeping it PG here) wallpaper bubbled right up. It was frustrating and timewise a set back, but in the grand scheme of rehabbing an old house, not an expensive set back. So we got to get out the putty knives again and start Round #2. After that round of mudding and sanding, the prime did hold. There were a few tiny bubbles show up, but we looked the other way and kept on painting. I’ve painted over a lot of wallpaper and never had that happen when it’s felt so tight to the wall to begin with.

It’s Done and look at the “new” green in the green room. I LOVE it. I’m wondering where else I can put this color.

And to cap off the wallpaper issues, when we peeled off the tape on the ceiling to do the wall color, of course some wallpaper peeled off with it. So Brandon went around and had to touch it up in all the bedrooms. We are glad to be done painting upstairs!