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| Redesigned on 10/10/99 |
| Updated 05/18/01 |
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| The Music is "Rhapsody On a Theme of Paganini" by Rachmaninoff. |
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| Step 7: Chicken Little - "The Sky is Falling" Dropping the ceiling in the Guestroom There are a LOT of photos, so this page is very slow loading... |
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| This is where we started... Look closely and you will see all the different seams, patches, missing areas of plaster, etc. |
| View of the area around the drop down staircase to the "upper attic". (I wonder how long it will take me to start calling it the "Attic" instead of the "Upper Attic", since what was known as the "Lower Attic" is now my office??? :O} ) |
| Another view of my "dropped ceiling"... |
| This is the "treat" my guests got to see when the Guestroom door was closed... At last count, we have estimated about the woodwork has about eight layers of paint...the last one was acrylic latex over oil-based... |
| This is the best photo I could get of the cracked and bulging horsehair plaster on the wall next to the door to the office. |
| The little "snowflakes" in the photo are particles of dust floating in the air...couldn't see them as I was taking the photo, but you can't fool the eye of the lens... |
| Let the Games begin!!! We start prying the plaster from the lathe... |
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| Another view of the same... |
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| That's the Love of My Life chiseling away... Hmmm...the "snow" seems to be getting deeper in here... |
| The "snow" got pretty thick after that... so I stopped taking photos until Dan started dropping the lathe. You are now looking up from the Guestroom on the second floor into the Attic. |
| From the opposite angle... |
| Slowly but surely "inching" across the ceiling... |
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| Close Up view of the area around the drop down staircase. As it turned out, the rectanglular area was a sheetrock "patch", and the darker patch at the edge of the woodwork was SPACKLING PASTE!!! |
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| Finally! All the "De-struction" is over! |
| And you thought YOUR house was hard to clean!!! |
| Navigation Links are located at the bottom of the page... |
| Please click here to report any missing links... I'm working so fast, I may have overlooked some! |
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| As soon as the new ceiling was in place and painted, we started repairing the cracked plaster on the side walls... This wall won the prize for being the absolute WORST!!! |
| By comparison, the other walls were in almost PERFECT condition (all things being relative!) |
| No, the commode is not installed there... (Why does everyone want to know that???) We were just storing it here until we could clear out another place for it. |
| We reached a point where you couldn't see the forest for the trees -- too many patches in too many places. So, we slapped a coat of paint on the walls to enable us to see what still needed work. |
| And since we were planning on moving into our new office, this room now became the #1 workroom/storeroom... |
| (All those pieces covered in paper are the pieces and parts to our "new" mantel. That's a fun story in itself... Check it out under "Miscellaneous Projects"... |
| The new ceiling is quite an improvement, don't you think??? I especially like the part where the ceiling is NOT falling!!! Now we have to go to work on the gaps between the top of the walls and the new ceiling... |
| Tin Lizzie's Place 2001 |