2012/ceiling repair

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  • I had the ceiling propped up to keep it from collapsing further, when fixing it wasn't an option

  • closer view of the prop, with a piece of dried seaweed draped over it because Anna

  • another view of the fan and prop; nothing exciting

  • some of the screws from what turned out to be a futile attempt to re-attach the plaster

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  • I go in -- the crime begins...

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  • looking up at the attic through where the ceiling used to be

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  • pretty much all of the tools I used for this

  • standing in the naked attic, looking down

  • looking down some more

  • starting with the new drywall

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  • the removed plaster fragments

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  • a semi-temporary light fixture in the attic

The finished ceiling, 8 years later

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Me being me, I didn't finish with the standard methodology of taping the cracks, then spackling and painting the whole thing. We decided we liked the color of the bare drywall (blueish because it's special water-resistant drywall for bathrooms, which I figured might be good to have in place if the roof ever leaks), and I screwed in 1x4 pine boards over the cracks. In some far-off hypothetical future where I have "spare time", I'll polyurethane the boards.

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