I really don’t like tearing out plaster. Really…
6/20 Start by going to Kroger to get lots of banana boxes. Enclose the whole kitchen area in plastic. Packaging tape works well. Supplement it with staples put through cereal box cardboard. Tie a bandana over your head and put a good respirator over your face. The respirator will keep you from blowing black crud out of your nose for the next three days. Rip out any remaining trim. Bang a hole in the wall with your hammer. Grab the plaster and pull hard. Try to get big chunks of plaster. This saves a lot of cleanup time. Get someone to carry those filled boxes out of the work area.
These days, people use paper tape to tape the seams between pieces of drywall. In the olden days, they used steel “tape” between seams. There are a lot of seams between the surfaces of cabinet soffit. They are all edged with steel edging. Man they used a lot of it.
6/21 Rip out more plaster.
6/22 Rip out the last of the plaster from those areas on the soffit that you have been avoiding.
6/23,25 Replace hoses, calipers, rotors, brake pads, ball joint, and a CV axle on a friend’s car.
6/25 Rip out the wood in the headers.
Man I dislike tearing out plaster walls…
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- Plastic sheeting encloses the remodeling area.
- One tired and sore camper.
