Good news: the sky is probably not falling
Jan. 7th, 2008 03:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stephbgAh, whom do you trust? Just had my second ceiling person come over who gave me the other half of the strapping versus pinning debate. *An* other half at least - I have quote and opinion number #3 next week.
Apparently strapping is no good because it causes mess, destroys the roof and fails in a couple of years. Apparently pinning is no good because it causes cracks and fails in a couple of years. Strapping can be done with or without propping, but costs a lot more than pinning. After pinning you have to repaint the ceilings, but our ceilings are peeling and need to be repainted anyway... etc etc.
This explains the total quote confusion a couple of years ago when I tried to get Husband to collect ceiling quotes for just the visibly scary bits in the kitchen. He was unable to explain to me why the quotes varied from $700 to $6000. It took forever and I just gave up. I now have a better idea why, but back then it was a total mystery.
Good news is that I'm in no immediate danger of raining plaster-glass, although getting them fixed is still a better-now-than-later proposition. Curves don't like going straight, apparently, nor are they allowed to adopt children.
I also asked about options for smoothing the killer pointy textured walls in the vestibule/lounge/dining areas. I'd assumed (correctly as it turned out) that the only solution would be to skim coat over them, thus reducing the size of the afflicted rooms by several mm. Unfortunately the "ceiling and walls" company I had over today wasn't *that* kind of wall people. I'd need to talk to a wall plasterer.
He did say it was the roughest job he'd ever seen, so the blood I've shed was not in vain, nor complaints unjustified. Not that it's ever stopped me before.
Remind me again - why did I buy this house? Oh yes, location, location, location, double carport, storage, generous floor plan (with the notable exception of the insanely tiny laundry), general structural soundness, reasonable if uninspired interior. But so many *bits* done badly! One of the first things we had to (pay someone else to) do was take up the brick paving along the side of the house, put in soakwells, realign the slope away from the house and relay the bricks.
That's right, the downpipes simply emptied out at the base of the walls where the paving carefully and lovingly collected the water up against the house. There was moss on the outside, and crumbling bits of plaster on the inside. Moss long since gone, and crumbling halted and conveniently hidden by curtains.
Hmmmm. I appear to have tapped a new vein of rantage.
Apparently strapping is no good because it causes mess, destroys the roof and fails in a couple of years. Apparently pinning is no good because it causes cracks and fails in a couple of years. Strapping can be done with or without propping, but costs a lot more than pinning. After pinning you have to repaint the ceilings, but our ceilings are peeling and need to be repainted anyway... etc etc.
This explains the total quote confusion a couple of years ago when I tried to get Husband to collect ceiling quotes for just the visibly scary bits in the kitchen. He was unable to explain to me why the quotes varied from $700 to $6000. It took forever and I just gave up. I now have a better idea why, but back then it was a total mystery.
Good news is that I'm in no immediate danger of raining plaster-glass, although getting them fixed is still a better-now-than-later proposition. Curves don't like going straight, apparently, nor are they allowed to adopt children.
I also asked about options for smoothing the killer pointy textured walls in the vestibule/lounge/dining areas. I'd assumed (correctly as it turned out) that the only solution would be to skim coat over them, thus reducing the size of the afflicted rooms by several mm. Unfortunately the "ceiling and walls" company I had over today wasn't *that* kind of wall people. I'd need to talk to a wall plasterer.
He did say it was the roughest job he'd ever seen, so the blood I've shed was not in vain, nor complaints unjustified. Not that it's ever stopped me before.
Remind me again - why did I buy this house? Oh yes, location, location, location, double carport, storage, generous floor plan (with the notable exception of the insanely tiny laundry), general structural soundness, reasonable if uninspired interior. But so many *bits* done badly! One of the first things we had to (pay someone else to) do was take up the brick paving along the side of the house, put in soakwells, realign the slope away from the house and relay the bricks.
That's right, the downpipes simply emptied out at the base of the walls where the paving carefully and lovingly collected the water up against the house. There was moss on the outside, and crumbling bits of plaster on the inside. Moss long since gone, and crumbling halted and conveniently hidden by curtains.
Hmmmm. I appear to have tapped a new vein of rantage.
