Thoroughly plastered

It's been quite a while since I last reported, and our loft room is practically ready to be decorated and fitted out.  Here's a reminder of how it was (i.e., in the process of being plastered by those craftsmen, Mike and John.)

Drying out nicely

And all the while, Andy had been keeping a step ahead with preparing the stairwell for them...

Stairwell boarded

Andy constructed a form for the stairs – we'd been
wondering how they were going to deal with them.

Over the next couple of days, Mike and John chased Andy (at a snail's pace) downstairs. And I had the essential job of keeping everyone going with tea.

Starting to plaster the stairwell

The first-floor landing de-artexed – hurray!

First pass at the underside of the stairs

And then finished – note the spindles!

Done!

And almost ready for decorating. 

If you're preparing to get the plasterers in, just one thing: don't bother dusting just before they arrive; while they're there; for umpteen days thereafter. You just have to learn to live with the fact that, no matter how diligently they cover stuff with dust-sheets, that plaster dust will get everywhere.

 

Getting plastered

Day 1 of plastering
The plasterers were on the doorstep just after 7.30am, as promised. They work non-stop!  They started with  the dressing-room ...

and the entrance to the bedroom.

In the main part of the bedroom they also plastered the angles where the wall meets the ceiling.

Day 2
More of much the same, to be honest...

Day 3
... was bedroom ceiling day. 

Day 4, and the plaster was 'going off' well.   

  

And that's where the plasterers have had to leave it, for now. They had run out of bits they could plaster, as there was some fixing to be done in the bathroom, and the second-floor landing and stairway aren't quite ready for them. They'll be back next Wednesday to pick up where they had to leave off. 

And meanwhile, the plaster has carried on going off.  The weather this weekend has been perfect for having the windows wide open to encourage the process.