12/26/2023 0 Comments Plaster patch behind light fixtureI also do what John and Sherry did when they were working in the kitchen (i.e. Depending on how great I am feeling about prep, I might lay down plastic again for the sanding stage, but usually it’s easy to vacuum one room. It usually takes me two hours to do a whole room, but then I scoop up the whole thing of plastic and throw it out. I also try to get as much off in that phase as possible because again it reduces the sanding. We have carpet, so I lay down a huge sheet of plastic, use a pesticide sprayer that is filled with water (never used for pesticide) spray the ceiling, let it sit for 2-3 minutes and then start scraping….going slowly though to minimize the scrapes to the sheetrock. I have removed popcorn ceiling in every room of my house…the only room left is a tiny bathroom which I am planning to do before June. What are you guys up to this week? Any hole patching? Shelf building? Painting? Secret project-ing? Spackle-dodging? Tell $herdog all about it. And the cork – that’ll be a room-changer for sure. Bring on the colorful plates and bowls! Ah accessorizing, the best phase of every project. Next up in the kitch: shelf planning and hood painting. So put on your Brave Girl Underoos and get ‘er done! Or your Brave Boy Underoos if you’ve got those. As in, this is about a 2 on the difficulty scale. But in the end, you can totally get ‘er done. You’re gonna get messy, and it might take a few tries to get things to stick. But it kind of perfectly captures the whole process. Yes, there are outtakes right in the middle of the thing. Admittedly, things got a little wonky (falling spackle, shrieking Sherry, an offhanded mention of a slug, etc). Here’s the other former-hole next to the pendants after paint. Two coats of ceiling paint later (bless the previous owners for leaving that behind for us), any evidence of those old holes were history: We’re on the hunt so we’ll keep you posted when we plug that guy up with something light and pretty. Oh and see the one over the sink- that’s still waiting for a fixture, so it stays. Here’s the hole next to the new pendant lights that we patched too. See the three dark-ish areas where those holes used to be? They just need some paint (along with other dirty areas of the ceiling that got grunged up under the old fluorescent lights). I like to use a sanding block when it comes to sanding large planes like walls and ceilings, just because it keeps things straight (sandpaper is so floppy that it’s hard to keep things as rigid in this case, but it’s great for sanding furniture since it flexes to follow the lines of those items, like the legs of a chair).Īfter sanding everything (and sweeping/vacuuming/showering to get the white powder off of everythingintheentirekitchen-urgh!) it hopefully looks like this. Then just wait the recommended drying time and get to sanding. Smooth it as much as you can with the spackle knife, but know that sanding everything down afterwards is when you’ll get the finished look you’re going for (so it’s always better to build things up slightly more than you need since you can always sand it down). More on that later (there’s video evidence of my struggle).Īfter the mesh patch is stuck up on the wall (darn, no pics of that, but that’s all in the video), just get some spackle on the biggest putty knife you have and squish it all over the mesh pad. They really make things pretty easy – even on a ceiling (the most notoriously annoying plane to work on in any room). You stick it on the hole firmly, spackle over it, sand things down, and paint. They’re basically a wire mesh patch that’s stuck to sticky paper. Then it was time for these guys from Home Depot. I’m the designated Spackle Wench in our family, but John has longer arms, so he helped me by doing step one: lightly sanding the outside of the holes we were patching. And ceiling dust is gross when it’s up your nizzle. Why? Because we can’t find our safety glasses (book shoots = can’t really find anything). So we did the normal thing and donned sunglasses and hats along with breathing masks. Our ceiling was having a little hole problem after some electrical wizork last week (warning: $herdog is in full effect in this post)…
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