I took a day off work to do one of my favorite pass-times: plastering! Janeen popped her head in just as I was painting the walls with plasterweld, the special plaster adhering paint.
We’d already gone over the mesh tape and plaster washers with rough patches of joint compound, so that’s why the walls look splotchy white.
Janeen loves this photo. It’s funny that I’m standing on a step stool to plaster the area over the fireplace. “Real” plasterers would probably set up a platform to walk on.
The plastering went really well, mostly. The only problem I had was after I’d done the first coat on a couple of walls, I mixed a second batch that was much too runny. I added more dry plaster to it to thicken it up, but the process of starting, stopping, re-mixing took about 20 minutes off the 40 minute open time… I ran out of time and the plaster started setting in the bucket.
That plaster got wasted, but I’ve figured out that I can just mix another batch, and recoat the whole wall. No stressing necessary! It just added about 2 hours to my day, so I finished as it got dark. So much less of a mystery than my first attempt.
The finished walls came out really nice, I think.
Ooohhh, Smooth!