What a time!
Ed and Brad have spent 18 days at the Bunny Manse working on the plaster repair in the dining room, suite downstairs, main hall, and butler hall. They have scraped, opened cracks, bolted the plaster to the wall, repaired holes, and provided the new base coat on top of all of this.
Every night we go up and there is visible progress. By the end of next week the walls and ceilings in this section of the house we will occupy should be finished and colored.
We figured out the cost of time and money of ripping out the plaster, rippping out the lathe, disposing of all of that, reinsulating the walls, firing the 2x4s, putting up drywall, priming the drywall, and then providing the finish painting to the drywall. Much more labor intensive and expensive than Ed. While Ed is by no means inexpensive, his work is beautiful, professional, and will last longer than we will in this house. If you think about ripping out original plaster and lathe because there are a few holes or some movement, please reconsider! It can be restored!
What we also get from this is
When we worked on Oakwood the plaster fell off the walls in sheets if you touched it. This was simply not the case at the Bunny Manse. The plaster was largely there, just with about 20% - 30% per room missing or broken out of the walls and ceilings.
Dining room after Harris and I were scraping for what felt like ever.
Dining Room with base coat waiting for finish coat
Suite Room ceiling getting coated, walls waiting to be coated.
Ed and Brad have spent 18 days at the Bunny Manse working on the plaster repair in the dining room, suite downstairs, main hall, and butler hall. They have scraped, opened cracks, bolted the plaster to the wall, repaired holes, and provided the new base coat on top of all of this.
Every night we go up and there is visible progress. By the end of next week the walls and ceilings in this section of the house we will occupy should be finished and colored.
We figured out the cost of time and money of ripping out the plaster, rippping out the lathe, disposing of all of that, reinsulating the walls, firing the 2x4s, putting up drywall, priming the drywall, and then providing the finish painting to the drywall. Much more labor intensive and expensive than Ed. While Ed is by no means inexpensive, his work is beautiful, professional, and will last longer than we will in this house. If you think about ripping out original plaster and lathe because there are a few holes or some movement, please reconsider! It can be restored!
What we also get from this is
- More sustainable restoration - bc we're not pulling all of that plaster and lathe in a landfill
- More insulating factors- the walls are insulated with two inches of cement basically, wood behind that, and blown between. It will be quieter and warmer/cooler when we want it to be
- a look- plaster just looks different from drywall. It's honestly alive and part of the house in a way that drywall looks flat, thin, and separate. IMHO YMMV.
When we worked on Oakwood the plaster fell off the walls in sheets if you touched it. This was simply not the case at the Bunny Manse. The plaster was largely there, just with about 20% - 30% per room missing or broken out of the walls and ceilings.
Dining room after Harris and I were scraping for what felt like ever.
Dining Room with base coat waiting for finish coat
Dining Room with base coat waiting for finish coat
Suite Room ceiling getting coated, walls waiting to be coated.
Congratulation Ed & Brad for successful completion of plaster work at Benny Manse. Really, both of you done a well planned and great job... Keep it up
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