Polar Bear Blinking in a Blizzard

This might not look like much, but it makes me happy. I wish I could find a before picture, but it's on my old dear departed computer, never to be retrieved. This is the lathe and plaster ceiling in the living room of my historic bungalo, freshly restored (last room yay!) It was riddled in cracks, and there was a large section where the plaster was separating from the lathe and crumbling down. In the unstable area, I marked out all of the ceiling joists, drilled oversized holes through the plaster, and filled them with copious amounts of construction adhesive. I then pulled the plaster tight to the lathe and joists using long screws through my glue-holes, with large washers to distribute the tension. Next, I chiseled out all of the loose plaster around the cracks and taped them with fiberglass joint tape. This is three rounds of plaster and sanding later, and it is nearly flawless. My long term plans for this ceiling: I want to put Venetian plaster and wax, and coffer it, but that will be a project for another day.

Done