Because the plaster was beyond saving, everything came down to the bare joists. (Never underestimate the filth that hides in a 120 year old house. Since the room was already an empty hot mess, we decided to tackle the ceiling next, and a bigger mess was made. The big hole, pictured above, now looks like this:īut it’s totally worth it: after a full on chemical assault, details like this appeared. The dining room will tell whether we’re properly tending to the cracks.
#Plaster painting brooklyn Patch#
At least from a beginner’s standpoint, the biggest issue applying thicker layers: improper drying and shrinkage, which means the patch will crack. It was surprisingly easy, and to be super cliché: easy does it: many thin layers seems to be the way to go. While the first few layers are quite bumpy, each subsequent coating gets a little smoother. Little bits of missing plaster? Sure! A few cracks here and there? No problem. Besides, who am I kidding? I’m just a beginner when it comes to plaster. Because this is a brick wall (there isn’t any lath behind this plaster) I though the normal way to fix bubbling plaster would not work all that well, since it involves special screws and special glue. So I popped it (because that’s the tempting thing to do with all blisters) and removed all the bits of plaster that were no longer attached to anything. I didn’t take a before picture, but believe me when I tell you that the white areas in the photo above used to be a giant plaster bubble.
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