Plaster Master

As good as their word, Wayne and Pete were back here at 7.30 this morning and straight back to business. I had to drop Nikki at work today, and hang around the local Vauxhall dealers to have the door mirror replaced. By the time I returned, around 11am, work was almost complete.


By 1pm, the room looked something like this (it's dried out a little in between them finishing and me taking these pictures) and our plaster masters were on their way. All the extra sections where plaster had unexpectedly turned out to be blown and was either pulled off or fell off, which amounted to the whole of the window wall on the left side of the study, and the whole of the chimney breast on the right side, only cost us an extra £50. As you might expect, we'll definitely be having these guys back to plaster the other rooms that need it.

We, of course, are left with a massive clean-up job (the floor is covered with plaster blobs and splashes) followed by a massive decorating job. I also have to fix the cornice where it's cracked or damaged, fit new skirting board and we have to choose the new radiators and arrange for them to be fitted. But the messiest job is done and the result is everything we'd hoped for. Even before it's painted I think the answer to our decorating experiment (whether to paint, paper and paint, or replaster) is clear.