This was a project that involved all my skills and trades. Many moving parts because the plaster walls were crumbling and the furred wall was in the way and the load bearing wall had to be propped up and a beam had to be made and then stabilized and the concrete floor had to be repaired. It was also an inferno here and working with fresh plaster made the room a sweltering sauna of old technology. But it's basically complete. The wall is gone and I added curtains and now the air conditioning works for my new bedroom and the plaster wall is completely repaired although not perfectly flat or flush with the old plaster but it at least is not allowing the adobe brick to deteriorate into the room. There is no point in adding drywall so I painted the old framework and hid the new electrical behind some trim boards. As if the biggest problem with this house is going to be exposed romex.
There was another project involving the pressure release valve on the water heater that led nowhere so I had to drill a hole in the wall and then plumb a drain for the valve and also the newly installed drain pan.
 In general I started with too much lime plaster and it had to be too thick and then if just fell apart. This involved a huge amount of mixing lime and sand and water with a drill that then burned up due to using an extension cord that was 16 gauge. But not before I mixed my last batch of plaster.
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| The final beam in place. I would not linger under it for hours and hours but it's basically safe. |
