Stairway Facelift
I have a couple of weeks off in between jobs, so I decided to take some time to do some facelifts in the house. My house project budget is pretty well shot since I spent $9,000 putting a new roof on and re-grading along the side of the house that kept flooding last year. But I was tired of the ugly route all of my guests were taking from the main floor to the basement guest bedroom. So I hired a handyman to come put up drywall on the closet near the guest room entrance and to patch the drywall behind the paneling in the stairway that I planned to tear down.
I started tearing down the paneling on Tuesday. I realized after a few chunks were down that I was dealing with plaster walls, not drywall. And it was very crumbly stuff. Here are some of the before pictures.
And here are some mid-way pictures. All of the paneling is now down. You can see the big pockmarks everywhere there had been a finishing nail. It was such a mess. Handyman Thomas and I decided it didn't make a lot of sense to patch all these crumbly holes, so he decided to cover the whole deal with sheetrock.
In theory, covering the whole deal with sheetrock seemed like a good idea. The plaster was so crumbly, I didn't want to have to worry every time I walked through there that I might knock a chunk out. But when Handyman Thomas started hanging the sheetrock, he had a heck of a time finding studs to attach it to. Apparently the plaster was so thick his studfinder was rendered useless. So he decided to supplement his "wing and a prayer' drywall screws with "liquid nails" glue.
In theory, covering the whole deal with sheetrock seemed like a good idea. The plaster was so crumbly, I didn't want to have to worry every time I walked through there that I might knock a chunk out. But when Handyman Thomas started hanging the sheetrock, he had a heck of a time finding studs to attach it to. Apparently the plaster was so thick his studfinder was rendered useless. So he decided to supplement his "wing and a prayer' drywall screws with "liquid nails" glue.
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