Bedroom update 2

Hello.

It's been a funny week of work on the house. When i think about it it has been productive but it doesn't feel it somhow.

Last weekend we had little willy ward (hannah's brother) stay with us from friday until Monday morning - which was fun.

Last friday night i was doing sound for an event in brighouse and then on saturday night and sunday morning at church. so it was a busy weekend.

On Saturday i got up at 8 and was plastering by 9 which was good. I got the long stone wall done by lunch time ish which was great. I was very pleased and it also marked the final barrel mix of the year - which was timely as it was freezing outside and sunday brought the first frost of the year.

The rest of the afternoon was spent doing ceiling prep ready for plastering - so stripping of wall paper and patching the ceiling with plasterboard.

Sunday we went to wickes after church and picked up some multi surface thistle gypsum plaster to skim the bedroom ceiling on the Monday. I did a touch more ceiling prep on sunday afternoon before lunch and then we went food shopping and we had a nice chilled evening reading books and chatting to Will. Very good.

Monday I left work early - about 2ish i think and was plastering by 3pm. Good. It started off well, but Gypsum is a nightmare to work with. it goes off soooooo quickly which makes it difficult to rework. I finished the ceiling at 9pm and I'll be honest with you... I think Cheryl Cole is great, I still get excited about Christmas, and the bedroom ceiling is crap. Really Crap. I don't know if it can even be called 'rustic'.

I'm pretty dissapointed as it was very very very very hard work and and tried hard to make it good, but alas i'm not skilled on large areas of gypsum plastering! I know that if we had the money to do it with lime i could have got it looking perfectish - but with lime it would have cost about £100 in materials, where as the gypsum cost just over £15.

Also, I'm not sure if i prepped the ceiling well enough - parts i thought were solid became lose when plastering over it. So for now I have fingers crossed and have left it as it is hoping it will last until we move out - but this is probably the worst job i've done on the house!

On tuesday we went to B&Q and bought some off white paint for the ceiling. It was on special offer which was good!

I was going to put a 'mist' coat on the ceiling on wednesday but the plaster wasn't yet dried.

I don't remember thursday at all - which is odd. Very strange.

Friday I put a mist coat on the whole ceiling - this is where you at 30% water to the paint and wash it on the new plaster. It's how the pro's do it apparently. As the plaster soaks it up very quickly you can apply a second coat of paint after an hour - so I did that last night also.

Saturday i had a lie in and got up jsut before 9 i think. I was expecting to do another coat on the ceiling but looking at it this mornign it had covered really well so i didn't bother. Good quality paint kind of pays off.

Yesterday we had gone to Womersleys to get lime wash for the walls. The 'cream' we bought though was a vibrant yellow when we opened it which caused some panick. However, they had given us some white and we had some white around the house to pale it up! So we spent a while this morning mixing it to a desired shade which we eventually did.

We got painting at 12 pm and had the 3 walls done by 13:30 so that was good. Second coat goes on tomorrow.

On friday afternoon we also bought a carpet! well nearly. We went to a cheap place we had been recommended and had a poke about. We found one we liked but it is already reserved. However, the chap said there might be an off cut of it which would fit our room. We need to get in touch on Monday and see - I hope there is because it's nice!

After the lime washing of the walls today we went and bought some light fittings and light shades for the bedroom and a new radiator and new valves etc. If i had been more careful with the plastering then perhaps I wouldn't need to replace these - but at least it'll all look nice and shiny. 8 mm microbore is very expensive though!!!!

So, the plan.

Tomorrow we do second coat of lime wash
Monday - third coat of lime wash and fitting lights and beam cleaning
Tuesday - fourth coat of lime wash and window sill cleaning
Wednesday - primer coat on brown wall ( more about that later)
Thursday - Brow coat number 1 and socket fixing
Friday - Brow coat number 2 and finishing bits off
Saturday - radiator fitting and snag list
Sunday - Contingency
Monday - carpets are fitted (fingers crossed) and we move bedrooms in the evening.

We'll see how all that goes.

I'll take some pictures soon too!