Plastering | Marsh Flatts Farm Self Build Diary

Week 50, Day 2:

The Living Room ceiling has needed some attention to make the coving work properly with the LED lighting strips and the plastering team were back on site with the intention of adding more plaster in some areas to level it out. It soon became apparent it was out by more than they thought and the quickest and best way to proceed was to install some new boards with a thin skim of new plaster. Installing these below the old boards would have been difficult and would have lowered the ceiling by around 50mm so instead the plan is to remove the old boards and install new ones, taking care to ensure they are level.
Some of the steps on the staircase also need attention which became apparent when making the templates for the glass balustrade panels – since the exposed end of the steps will be close to the edge of the glass it will be obvious if the spacing on the steps is different. To fix them they need to be re-welded, which means removing the plaster from around the end of the steps.

Week 50, Day 2

Plaster removed around problem steps on first-to-second floor staircase

Plaster removed around problem steps on ground-to-first floor staircase

Week 42, Day 5:

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Various significant milestones today:
- It’s exactly 10 months since building work started, meaning today was the original forecast completion date; it’s currently expected to take about another month to make the house habitable and a bit longer than that before the landscaping and decorating is complete
- The plasterers completed the last room, marking the end of their continuous 11 weeks of work
  - Mostly a two-person team assisted by one or two others on occasions, so something like 25 weeks of effort
  - A really top-quality job including some difficult areas – especially the inside of the curved roof (which looks amazing, even inside the storage cupboards)
  - I’d highly recommend GC Interfinish to anyone wanting quality plastering in the East Midlands
- All the scaffolding on the south side got dismantled ready for the installation of the solar shading next week, meaning that today’s time-lapse photo looks a lot different from yesterday’s
- Thanks to some better weather, the majority of the zinc got installed on the north roof, with just a few sections left to complete – and then the fascias, down-pipes etc.
- The kitchen worktops arrived and the sink worktop and splash-back is finished but there was a mishap fine-tuning the cut-out for the flush-fitting induction hob and the worktop for the island will have to be re-made
  - I think the mid-grey colour (Silestone Cemento) looks a bit odd against the bare plaster, the blue protective film over the gloss-finish cabinet fronts and the cardboard protecting the polished concrete floor but it should look better when everything is finished