Getting plastered

9 September 2010

One thing I invested in for the den was smooth walls. There were standard lumps and bumps that had been covered with the mottled wallpaper and then there were small holes in the plaster where the coving had taken it with it on removal. Oh, and then there was the big hole in the wall. When the plumber had channeled the adjoining bathroom wall for the new pipes for the shower he’d somewhat overestimated the thickness of said wall and had ended up with two peekaboo holes into the den. The plaster was loose in various places anyway too, so this was all pulled off too for the whole room to be skimmed.

Previously the room had had vertical coving in the corners as well as the standard around the top of the room, which served as channels for the cables for the lighting and for hiding the TV aerial. With the plasterer’s offer to channel the TV cable into the wall and my other reasons for having that coving (which I can’t even remember now) being chipped away one by one, I ultimately decided against having it again. Thus saving myself a few pounds on coving too. Yesterday I mentioned to John that I’d just been adding up all the money I’d spent on the den – the decorating, the furniture, the everything – “Yeah, you don’t want to do that,” he said. Heed his advice, future home decorators.

After the initial work of preparing the walls, the plasterers put in a full – and very long – day’s work and turned the whole room brown and smooth. The plaster’s well on its way to being completely hard and dry and the painters have started work this morning. But that doesn’t mean you can touch my walls. You may look at them out of the corner of your eye and with written permission and under special supervision you may be permitted to stroke a small area lightly with the tip of your finger if you really, really must. But other than that, don’t you touch my special walls.

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Thursday
9th September 2010 @ 10:33 am

We had a wall in the spare room/study skimmed a week or so ago, badly required as it was lumpy, with holes that looked like a sniper had been in there. I plan to do the first mist coat of paint this weekend and, like you, no-one will be touching that wall.

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The secret giraffe : dreamdust
12th September 2010 @ 12:56 pm

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