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struggled mightily with some extremely shit and bowed ceilings but my uncle and I managed to get all 3 bedrooms overboarded over the weekend in the end
we also pulled down an extremely bowed and failing ceiling in the living room extension to uncover about a million rat/mouse poops and insulation full of little tunnels so we had to remove and bag the whole lot. luckily the room is outside of the main house structure so I'm gonna disinfect the lot with spray, fill every hole i can see with steel wool and then expanding foam all the gaps and then I need to figure out what insulation I need to replace it with then I'm going to hire a board lifter for a weekend to finish that room and the dining room ceiling by myself. even with 2 people using the props was a nightmare so I'm glad I avoided trying to do that on my own.
we also knocked back the blown plaster in the fireplace to the brickwork and have a bonding coat that's just shy of the surrounding walls so I can come back and hit it with a top layer of easifill 60 later this week.
am exhausted but feeling good about the project again. poop ceiling bummed me out hard yesterday but getting rid of all the contaminated stuff this morning helped a lot as it was all disposed of at the waste disposal centre by mid afternoon.
these things were basically all of the major blockers for getting on with the final wall prep and redecorating.
by end of the month I'm hoping to have a couple of finished ceilings and some primed walls at least. the ceilings wont be perfect by any stretch but it's an old house and they were totally fucked so this is about as good as we'd get them without pulling everything down (and we discovered they were mostly all lath/plaster that had been overboarded already so that would have been a lot). also the joist spacing and past damp issues meant some sections needed a spray and pray approach for finding fixing points that would hold but we threw in some grab adhesive on the back of the trickier panels so its about as solid as we'll get it.
for now tape and jointing will do for finish. if we really hate the look later on we'll see if we hate them enough to pay to have them properly skimmed (right now the budget says wait to see how much everything else costs us still). i think we'll end up living with a little imperfection and just be happy we could get it to this point.