3f - Clearing out Plaster

So, the third floor has pretty bad floors, as well as a crack in the interior wall. All in all, it needs a lot of work. Like the 4th floor, there is no plumbing, no sewer downpipe and certainly no electricity. But the single most annoying factor of it is the plaster that covers the ceiling.

the crack in the wall.







It is slightly bigger now since I am removing bad chaux and plaster to repair it.


Plaster o' the Damned

Ostensibly for insulation, this plaster has hung on the ceiling for 100 years. It's heavy, unsightly, drops the visuals of the ceiling and is just a lot of unnecessary weight. So my friend and I decided to take it out.

Look how low the ceiling is.



Thispart was tiring, but I admit, a lot of fun. We took crowbars, hammers, chisels and everything available to it. Nothing comes down quite as satisfying as plaster. The person who put the plaster up decided that plaster itself wasn't warm enough so he insulated in the space between with horsehay and chesnuts. It's amazing this place didn't burn to the ground. As an added bonus, I sneezed like crazy.
When it was all said and done we had 40 garbage bags of useless weight on the floor. We also had early evening light pouring through the dust, so we took the oppurtunity to recreate a famous Hollywood scene. Slowly but surely we got the bags down from the third floor to the first. When it was all said and done we removed an estimated 2500-3000 lbs of plaster, chesnuts and horsehay from the house. 2500 lbs of useless weight hanging from the timber beams.

Where did it all go? That's the next and most useful post yet: The Dechetterie.