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Upstairs landing, reed mat walls prior to clay plastering. I liked them just like that, if it wasn`t a big fire risk I might have been tempted to leave it like that!
Brett working on the fiddly parts of the west wall of the main bedroom, being the twin niches, and the parts in between the ceiling joists. Sue has done the large areas in between and around the rounded wall end.
Jesus Plastering....on truck.
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He was on the bus already when I got on, waited for three. He was TWO seats ahead of me too. I kept looking at his hair. It reminded me of the Blue Moon hair.....that was Amazing! I decided to take a photo and it was a bit blurry. When I took it again....the sleeping woman move across and perfectly! covered his head, perfectly,and during the exposure. You can see she rested on her friend. See the striped bag when he gets up? I did.
It was the 111C bus which gets done at Carey Square, and I walk about 1/2mile. Come around the bend and there is Jesus Plastering! right there. There isn't any better sign, except he was around on the 20th too,see last collage in comment.
Brett, our “ladder-monkey”, plastering the top of the east wall. The top left hand side was done with the scaffold, which was moved out of the room prior to this photograph, because our heads were starting to bump into the (downsloping) ceiling as work progressed. We find it easier and faster at this point to have one person plastering at ground level, and re-filling the top person's hawk with lime plaster when needed. You don't get in each other's way, and the ladder monkey doesn't have to climb up and down all the time.
There are several intersting looking houses around the Neumarkt (New Market) in Dresden. I just took pictures of those I liked most.
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Rund um den Neumarkt gibt es eine Fülle von restaurierten (und teils etwas überladen wirkenden) Häusern. Ich weiß nicht wirklich, was sich alles hinter diesen Fassaden verbirgt, aber ich mochte einfach, wie sie aussahen.
Alles anklickbar.
Nearly completed finish coat on the south wall of the office. Brett is clearly going crazy with all the plastering. The western wall with the truth window is already completed and drying.
We finally gathered enough energy to do the brown coat for the office. Brett plastering another niche – his specialty.
Seven days of plastering took us all around the living area, and now we need a good rest. One more round to go: The top coat will need to go on before we can fully furnish the room. This will take as long again, once the brown coat has cured. Although the finish coat is the thinnest of all and will need less plaster, you also have to take care to produce a super-neat finish.
Light Quality: Soft
Light Amount: Low
Light Direction: Backlit
Colour: Complimentary
Pale shades of yellow plaster with dark scratches of old purple and lavender paint
After four days of plastering, the 40sqm north wall has a complete brown coat – hooray! Even the dog is happy, now that her chair is back in its normal place.
Plastering has begun at Curfew House. Mostly we are repairing ceiling cracks but this wall is an exception and is being completely redone. Love the old lathe.
Using tape along the timberwork and food wrap over the glass of this narrow window to protect it during finish plaster application to our master bedroom. (The purple tape on the glass itself is from painting the timberwork; we retained it in case the paint needed touching up after plastering.)
The lime skills demonstrations included a mock-up of a panel which will be lime-plastered through the weekend. GREAT to see young people involved in learning this heritage craft skill, so important to the conservation of our historic buildings.
My electrician is in the process of re-wiring my whole house.
I caught sight of this today, and thought it looked exciting.
Wall House #II
Wall House #II (also known as Bye House) is an historic building in Groningen, Netherlands, that was designed by John Hejduk. it is one of his few realized designs. Heiduk originally designed Wall House #II as a residence to be built in Ridgefield, Connecticut. However, due to cost constraints, the project was abandoned. In 2000, a Dutch development company, Wilma, started building the house in Groningen, based on Heiduk's original design and later revisions. Wall House II has a very large wall as its central feature, composed of four organic-formed rooms and a long, narrow corridor. It is considered a mix of Cubist painting, Surrealist sculpture and architecture. The wall and column are constructed of reinforced concrete. The corridor is steel-framed with wooden stud walls and a stucco exterior.
In discussing the wall section of Wall House #II Heiduk stated:
“Life has to do with walls; we're continuously going in and out, back and forth, and through them. A wall is the quickest, the thinnest, the element we're always transgressing… The wall heightens the sense of passage, and by the same token, its thinness heightens the sense of being just a momentary condition…what I call the moment of the “present.”
Discussing the house colors, Heiduk referred to Le Corbusier’s La Roche House in Paris, stating:
“After that experience,” he says, “I could never do another white or primary-colored house.” In the La Roche house, the colors “were hardly apparent at first, but after you were there awhile you saw not only that they changed constantly, but that they were delicate and muted, and also saturated at the same time.”
Hejduk originally designed Wall house #II in 1973 (the first was done in 1968) for landscape architect A.E. Bye. Due to the high estimated costs of construction in the wooded area, Wall House #II was put on hold. it was proposed to other clients, but was never started.
In 1990 the Wall house II project was introduced in Groningen on behalf of the experiment “Making the City Boundaries”. On the basis of Daniel Libeskind’s masterplan, people from various disciplines were asked to design signposts along the city’s most important arterial roads, telling the story of Groningen. Libeskind was a former student of Heiduk. The Berlin architect Thomas Muller, a former student at Cooper Union, was appointed project architect. He was then working in Groningen under supervision of Kleihues. Due to building codes and construction techniques-which required, for example, leaving space between the wall and rooms for hand plastering-the house was enlarged from its original size, to 2500 square feet. Muller redrew the plans with Derk Flikkema of Otonomo Architects in Groningen, with Hejduk reviewing the drawings in each phase up until his death. The construction cost was $ 600,000 in total, and it was sold with a proviso that the public can visit it one month a year.
The prep for new plaster is now complete, this includes:
◦Cutting and chipping under tile (if not being replaced)
◦Chipping around all fittings, lights, etc
◦Removing old fittings and preparing for new (if applicable)
Bond coat is applied to the pool to ensure the new material has a good surface to bond to. Plaster has a very smooth surface which doesn’t give the new plaster much to grab on to. The application of an epoxy based bond coat leaves a good rough texture that allows the new plaster to grab onto and form a solid bond preventing future delamination.