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Plaster repair planning

Our current plan is to create a smallish apartment or suite on the first floor in which we can live while we work on the rest of the house.  This will include a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen, and a living space. It will be clean, beautiful, and safe while we finish plans, get permission, and raise funds to complete the house.

We will most likely have a small detour to complete the Bunny Manse, we are going to flip LIZZY first.  We've tried to sell it this summer, turning down a really low offer after saying no to a more competitive offer this spring. The shear fact of the matter is right now selling it as is we would double our money, or we can flip it and triple our money. While it will mean that the Bunny Manse takes longer to finish, it will also mean we have less debt on the Bunny Manse when we're done and more cash to make it perfect.

We met with Ed Rokosz on Saturday to talk about the plaster repair. He showed us how to prepare the walls and to determine which loose pieces need to come out. There will be very little sponging work to do.

He will place a screen, re adhere the plaster to the walls/frame/wood of the house so that they can move together again, and will patch the holes and cracks. It's really interesting to see where they patched it in the 60s. With a  scraper, you can just tell if the plaster is original or not. Super cool, but the top coat is more powdery if they patched it than where it is solidly original. Here's hoping when Ed is done we'll have very minimal plaster repairs ever again.

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