What did you accomplish today?

Here's the room that had the nasty mattress in it. I did a little exploratory surgery upstairs on the walls. The old, crumbling plaster isn't held on by normal lathe strips. The entire house is 1x6 with 1/4" grooves cut in them under the plaster. Now to find a good way of peeling the plaster off but leaving some in the grooves for cool texture when I paint it. 20211211_174513.jpg
 
JonathanT said:
Here's the room that had the nasty mattress in it. I did a little exploratory surgery upstairs on the walls. The old, crumbling plaster isn't held on by normal lathe strips. The entire house is 1x6 with 1/4" grooves cut in them under the plaster. Now to find a good way of peeling the plaster off but leaving some in the grooves for cool texture when I paint it. View attachment 5045059
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You got a picture of the old 1x6 w/grooves used as lath?
Doesn’t sound like much for the plaster to key into.
 
JonathanT said:
I'll grab a pic today. It's not. The old plaster is crumbling, even the first floor. Still behind all the trailer trash paneling downstairs too. That is all a "later down the road" project.
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I can only imagine how the plaster isn’t holding up, so to speak lol.
The gaps in the old wood lath strips is what made the plaster “key” into and onto the wall.

If it was my house i’d either tear all that shit off, rock and tape and do an imperfect skim coat, or if you wanna be really pimp and you know a real plasterer who does interior veneer, screw up blue board and have the plasterer make love to them walls :-)
 
JonathanT said:
I can't tell. The original ceiling is plaster/ stucco maybe. There are drop ceilings installed by the previous owner. I won't get into ripping them out just yet.
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Somebody probably did the drop ceilings because the original ceilings were jacked too? maybe? Who knows. But if the ceilings are in good condition you could always just laminate shitrock over the existing plaster on the walls so you wouldn’t have to demo. Should have plenty of backing to screw into. Just a thought.
 
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Managed to break the concrete I put in last weekend when I hooked up the water. Also took some figuring until I noticed leak was due to missing gaskets, found one in the box one I had to go and buy. Anyhow it is in now, sadly I will have to take it off again after the tile has been drilled. Also filled the big hole in the wall next to the toilet with the leftover mortar.

I'm so addicted to Speedfit fittings now for any plumbing work, reversible and just clicks together can seal perfectly yet you can rotate something like an elbow as you need.

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Took this pic on the way back. I was once in a near-fatal accident at this crossing going the exact same way.. A Mercedes from the mountain's side turned towards Century city and pretty much drove over our car, I had to be cut out and have no actual recollection of the accident.
 
Took the truck in to get the evap problem figured out and the owner has some T shirts with the U-2 and other black aircraft on them. I told the clerk at the desk I worked on them and she said her husband worked on them for 20 years. She went and got him and we told war stories for awhile and he gave my son and I a T shirt each. Hope the price is reduced also...lol.
 
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