The Coffee House

[terri33 4]

Hi hosers! It’s been a week for me already and it's only Wednesday.

After moving to my bungalow a few years back, it was finally time to get the living room ceiling repaired and painted.

We had spent a couple weeks before the holidays painting the upstairs (like a lot of these bungalows, ours had been remodeled into a garret style bedroom), and we stopped at the top of the stairwell.

Bungalows are odd with their 1.5 story framing. The stairwell here has an odd ledge jutting out into it, making our ladder too awkward. So we decided to let the pros do both jobs.

I knew there'd be sanding after all the mud they put on the deep plaster cracks, but they sealed the entire room with plastic. It looked like a cross between a construction site and a kill room.

This shot shows where we stopped painting at the top of the stairs. Couldn't stand the dark battleship grayish putty color anymore, it was on both walls and ceiling up there.

The painters arrived and jumped on it. Yay!

Meanwhile, in the living room:

This one shows the beginning of the mudding before they politely hustled me out and taped down the plastic over the hallway. I was banned from reentry!

They're gone now and did a really nice job. They cleaned up some, but the sanding dust still flew. We've been cleaning and putting the room to rights.

I feel an "after" photo is due, but I don’t have one yet. The cats are just now decompressing.

 

[CherylL]

Hi hosers! It’s been a week for me already and it's only Wednesday.

After moving to my bungalow a few years back, it was finally time to get the living room ceiling repaired and painted.

We had spent a couple weeks before the holidays painting the upstairs (like a lot of these bungalows, ours had been remodeled into a garret style bedroom), and we stopped at the top of the stairwell.

Bungalows are odd with their 1.5 story framing. The stairwell here has an odd ledge jutting out into it, making our ladder too awkward. So we decided to let the pros do both jobs.

I knew there'd be sanding after all the mud they put on the deep plaster cracks, but they sealed the entire room with plastic. It looked like a cross between a construction site and a kill room.

This shot shows where we stopped painting at the top of the stairs. Couldn't stand the dark battleship grayish putty color anymore, it was on both walls and ceiling up there.

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The painters arrived and jumped on it. Yay!

Meanwhile, in the living room:

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This one shows the beginning of the mudding before they politely hustled me out and taped down the plastic over the hallway. I was banned from reentry!

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They're gone now and did a really nice job. They cleaned up some, but the sanding dust still flew. We've been cleaning and putting the room to rights.

I feel an "after" photo is due, but I don’t have one yet. The cats are just now decompressing.

Half the job in painting is getting it all taped off. The plastic had to have taken some extra time to put up and take down. We hired a painter for the upstairs bedrooms and bathroom. He did a great job and is so tall doesn't need a ladder. I painted doors and trim on the main floor and wished I had hired him. I shouldn't be up and down a ladder.

 

[terri33 4]

Half the job in painting is getting it all taped off. The plastic had to have taken some extra time to put up and take down. We hired a painter for the upstairs bedrooms and bathroom. He did a great job and is so tall doesn't need a ladder. I painted doors and trim on the main floor and wished I had hired him. I shouldn't be up and down a ladder.

That was our main issue - we don't have certain pro tools that would make that 2-story stairwell wall any easier. Why buy all this stuff for a one-time job? No shame in knowing your limits.

I do like painting, and we've done a lot here already - it's nice to have a smaller house. Hubby even painted the whole garage a couple of summers ago, it was tedious but easy. Know when it's time to pass the brush!

 

[cgw116 141]

That was our main issue - we don't have certain pro tools that would make that 2-story stairwell wall any easier. Why buy all this stuff for a one-time job? No shame in knowing your limits.

I do like painting, and we've done a lot here already - it's nice to have a smaller house. Hubby even painted the whole garage a couple of summers ago, it was tedious but easy. Know when it's time to pass the brush!

Nice job! Planning(i.e., squabbling over) late spring projects at the family ruin. New/repair plaster and lathe living room walls. Big nasty job removing a damaged false ceiling that partially collapsed when the original plaster and lathe ceiling crashed thru due to a roof leak last year. And this addition is only 150yrs old, not like the old part that's 175+! Keep saying to myself, "Somewhere in Hell there's a place..."

 

[Castelnuovo1]

I called in sick to work as I have cold and feels like sh@#$

 

[snowbear115 46]

It snowed a little, last night. The deck had been cleared.



After coffee, I get to clear off the vehicles and clear the driveway. I have to get to the post office, this morning, and I should drop the bottles and cans off for refunds, though that might wait.

 

[smoke665]

No snow for us, we're in the "Betweens" the season in the South where we run the A/C during the day and the furnace during the night. Yesterday high 70s, this morning 52, with another warm day.

Yesterday started on the deck rail replacement project. The inserts are a PITA fabricated arrangement. Spent a couple hours pre-cutting parts, and couple hours designing and building a jig to hold everything in place while I glue/screw them together. Managed to fabricate one section before the back said enough. Last night was a pain pill kind of night, dont know if I was really tired, the pain pill, or a combination, but I slept great.

Today have some more pre-cutting, but should be able to knock out the remaing sections quickly.

 

[CherylL]

No snow for us, we're in the "Betweens" the season in the South where we run the A/C during the day and the furnace during the night. Yesterday high 70s, this morning 52, with another warm day.

Yesterday started on the deck rail replacement project. The inserts are a PITA fabricated arrangement. Spent a couple hours pre-cutting parts, and couple hours designing and building a jig to hold everything in place while I glue/screw them together. Managed to fabricate one section before the back said enough. Last night was a pain pill kind of night, dont know if I was really tired, the pain pill, or a combination, but I slept great.

Today have some more pre-cutting, but should be able to knock out the remaing sections quickly.

We have done that a few times in the Fall. A/c then heat and back to A/C.

 

[CherylL]

I saw something online about "burbing" your house. The idea is to open all the windows for about 15 minutes middle of winter to refresh the air. Over at my daughter's house yet another grand is ill. Since xmas it seems one of the 3 is sick. I told her to burp her house the other day when we hit 70 degrees.

 

[terri33 4]

All of our snow is gone, between the warmer temps, lots of sunshine - and then staying warm enough to rain in February!

Back to winter temperatures for the last week of the month - and probably some more snow but this time, it won't last.

 

[smoke665]

Weather was actually a little warm in the shop, had to turn the fan on. Thanks to the jig I made yesterday, managed to whip out 7 sections of deck rail inserts (56ft). Hard part is over, now all have to do is remove the old sections and reattach the new. When we built the house we thought it would be a good idea to have a deck that wraps around three sides, 18 years later with maintenance work piling up I'm not so sure??

 

[snowbear115 46]

We have more on the way Monday, and Wednesday through Friday; possibly up to 20” / 50.8cm from both systems. I think the second one is skirting the coast and will affect Rhode Island, north. Man I love New England!

I’m going to try to change my doctors appointment to the end of next week or the week after so we can leave after the storm. I understand there will be snow in Baltimore, too. I don’t mind driving in the stuff but MLSIL is very nervous about it.

 

[SquarePeg37 7]

@terri if you don’t already have them, get some good portable air filters and run them 24/7 in that area for a few weeks to catch as much dust as you can. The plastic helps but plaster dust is stubborn!

 

[terri33 4]

@terri if you don’t already have them, get some good portable air filters and run them 24/7 in that area for a few weeks to catch as much dust as you can. The plastic helps but plaster dust is stubborn!

We don't have the portable ones, but we are swapping out the regular air filters very much ahead of schedule.

Poor old living room has had the lick. Last year we ripped out the cracked fireplace hearth, and replaced it and had a new custom mantle installed. That was also a dust bomb!

 

[MartinCrabtree108 2]

A few flakes mixed in with the rain. Seems like this won't be much of a storm for me. I can live with that.