The plasterers came back the next day to finish off.
It took a fair amount of plaster to make the chimney breast flat and even, and the fireplace the same, remembering that the builder's opening was pretty rough. The inside of the fireplace is just rendered. It seems a bit OTT to plaster that out, and it gives a good effect. We might have left it plain brickwork if it hadn't been so rough.
Here's the fireplace again, nearly dry. The hearth has had the self-leveling floor adhesive applied. It's 'nearly' self-leveled! The room has also been 99% fully prepped. Two days of filling and sanding and filling and sanding. My wife doing the lions share of the graft. There's a bit of trim work around the window on the right in the pic below, and a little bit of inevitable filling to get all the edges clean, and that's it. Ready for paint. The picture rail will be reinstated too.
It's really hard to get across the work that's gone into getting us this far, and the room still looks rubbish! Paint will make a huge difference....
There's been some other progress elsewhere in the house - lots of time taken cutting and fitting skirting boards and architrave, but it doesn't make much difference to the overall look of the place, so didn't bother with pics of that.
It took a fair amount of plaster to make the chimney breast flat and even, and the fireplace the same, remembering that the builder's opening was pretty rough. The inside of the fireplace is just rendered. It seems a bit OTT to plaster that out, and it gives a good effect. We might have left it plain brickwork if it hadn't been so rough.
Here's the fireplace again, nearly dry. The hearth has had the self-leveling floor adhesive applied. It's 'nearly' self-leveled! The room has also been 99% fully prepped. Two days of filling and sanding and filling and sanding. My wife doing the lions share of the graft. There's a bit of trim work around the window on the right in the pic below, and a little bit of inevitable filling to get all the edges clean, and that's it. Ready for paint. The picture rail will be reinstated too.
There's been some other progress elsewhere in the house - lots of time taken cutting and fitting skirting boards and architrave, but it doesn't make much difference to the overall look of the place, so didn't bother with pics of that.
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