Attacking the Walls - Pt. 1

This trip (April 2012) we went after the plaster on the walls. The walls on the 2nd floor for the mot part are reinforced concrete, which is actually a huge relief, since they sit on top of the 4 ft thick first floor walls and add a great deal of stability to the place. But on the 3rd floor, the walls are covered all around in different types of plaster. The big concern with that is I don't know what lies underneath them. I was reasonably confident that the north and south walls, by the fact that they carried the A-frame roof were likely stone, but the east sand west walls seemed to some degree to have a wood frame. This work would take the lion's share of the trip, partially because we used the wrong tools to start and partially because there were different types of wall and plaster. Using a mallet to loosen the plaster along the stone wall and then a chisel to bring off the remaining plaster without breaking the underlying stone, we started to pull it back. I was right, it was stone. And in pretty good condition... More to come including the right tools to use.