Monday, March 22, 2010
Getting plastered
With the drywall now up, it gets two coats of plaster. In this picture, the first coat has dried and the second "skip coat" is still damp. That's why it has a zebra look. This part of the plastering was done by a professional. The rest, I'll do myself. Plastering a ceiling is 3 times more work than plastering a wall.
Here, the zebra look is still evident in some areas. Humidity spiked at over 80% even with the ERV running all night. I fired up the wood stove and opened windows to get the humidity back around 50%. The "light" in the center of the ceiling is a solar tube. It really lights up the hallway.
The zebra look goes away, especially when painted. Below shows the bathroom ceiling painted and the ERV vent installed above the toilet. You can see the final look of the skip troweling texture on the ceiling.
Below is the same wall that is shown in the hallway picture above. Here, it has a coat of plaster over the base coat. You can see where the moisture has been sucked out into the surrounding dried plaster. The spray bottle is used to make sure that the edges stay wet enough for the new plaster to cure. Most of this will be covered by built in cabinets, so it was a good place for me to start my plastering.
Here, the zebra look is still evident in some areas. Humidity spiked at over 80% even with the ERV running all night. I fired up the wood stove and opened windows to get the humidity back around 50%. The "light" in the center of the ceiling is a solar tube. It really lights up the hallway.
The zebra look goes away, especially when painted. Below shows the bathroom ceiling painted and the ERV vent installed above the toilet. You can see the final look of the skip troweling texture on the ceiling.
Below is the same wall that is shown in the hallway picture above. Here, it has a coat of plaster over the base coat. You can see where the moisture has been sucked out into the surrounding dried plaster. The spray bottle is used to make sure that the edges stay wet enough for the new plaster to cure. Most of this will be covered by built in cabinets, so it was a good place for me to start my plastering.
Monday, March 08, 2010
Drywall goes up
I had planned on taking the drywall in through the large window on the other gable end, but a tree was in the way of the boom. The crew drove down the beach access road and loaded 12 foot sheets through a different window.
We had to use the little windows in the doghouse dormers.
Tight fit, but it worked.
This shows the ceiling line against the gable end wall. Some of the seams are shot with a foam gun because the drywall will receive a coat of plaster and the foam can keep the plaster from shooting out through the seam. More on that later.
