I lurk here reading the posts and learn much from them. Resently the attitude has changed and I see a lot of nit picking of others responses and opinions. I wanted to start a thread that was basicly mindless that I hoped others could get a laugh out of (I hope not just at my expense) and lighten up a little.
WARNING: this in no way resembles Fine Home Building so if you want you can stop here.
I am not a trades person, but have done a lot of handyman jobs and resently finished out my basement that turned out pretty well. All of my jobs were not like the basement and it took me a lot to learn. When I got my first house I was 18, and had no extra money at all. It was a 1920 something that had been somewhat remodeled to have an apartment made out of a couple of the rooms upstairs.
I got to know the renter pretty well and we would sit around and have a few beers together once and a while. On one of these ocassions he pointed out that some of the plaster was falling down from the ceiling. This was about 1982 “This Old House” had been on a few years and I watched it all the time, I thought I can fix this.
This house had old plaster and wood lathe. I get a piece of drywall and a bucket of joint compound and go at it. I remove the plaster where it is lose, small area maybe 2×3 ft, and make a patch. The plaster was thick so I did not remove the lathe. There was blown in insulation above, thinking that would have been a real mess to remove the lathe.
I make the patch put up the joint compound and it looks pretty good, but not quite right, it is a little uneven, but I think it’s just a rental and I’am broke. I go back to the store for the paint and find a 5 gal bucket of this heavy texture paint. I think this will make it so you don’t even see the patch.
A couple of beers, and and 2 hours later we are sitting back admiring out work, and then it starts to happen. I as I had said before there had been other remodeling before and one of those was painting, they painted over some wall paper that had been on the ceiling. That “heavy” texture paint had started to desolve the glue on the wall paper and was now falling down in large sheets all over. We started to scramble to hold it up, like that was going to work. I had that paint all in my hair, that’s when I had hair, on my glasses and even in my beer.
The entire area that we painted came down, about a 10×15 room. What didn’t fall and there wasn’t much, we had to scrape off and repaint again. Had to go out right away and rent a carpet cleaner, the drop cloth was not big enough for the whole room so we moved it as we went.
While discourged, it didn’t stop me from my own home maintance, but I did learn to do a lot better planning and I save the beer until the job is done.
Anyone else got a story that they can tell…..
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What brand of paint did you use.
You should have bought up a bunch and repackage it as wall(ceiling)paper remover.
Some guy that worked for me.....a real hot shot know it all climbed up an extention ladder to spackle the inside of a skylight well I installed then rocked.
The guy never stopped talking about how great he was.
My cutomer and myself and two of his friends next door were standing below the ladder talking..My know it all helper walked down the ladder as we watched trying not to crack up cause we "knew" where his foot was gonna end up....it did, up to his shins in the bucket of spackle he left below the ladder...that so rocked (scuse' the pun).
Be well
andy
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We removed about 150 to 200 2x4 ceiling tiles form a drop ceiling in the lab of Imperial Clevite mfg. co. in Salem IN. Spread plastic out on the rear parking lot and rented a paint spray rig. Sprayed all those ole nasty tiles a pristine white. We were so pleased with our handy work, we left the sight for dinner that evening (2nd shift).
Imperial Clevite makes powdered metal products. They clean the plant floor constantly to keep the metal dust form making it a skating ring. They don't empty the dust hoppers until, you guessed it, the second shift, so it doesn't get all over thier vehicles. We came back from dinner and found the darnest mess of gray and white ceiling tiles you ever saw.
Dave