Update On The Small House! We Are Still Working On It Too.....
I know I have not done an update on the small house in a while. We have been putting on mud and tape and it is slow since it takes time to dry, we have been busy trying to get things around for our garden this year also. It is like I am in overdrive and no signs of slowing down. Here is something we did and it took quite a while to do as it is slow going. Here is what the ceiling looked like before our improvements.
It was the typical mobile home ceiling, it had the trim pieces over the joints, also those little star things with the square head screws that were used to hold the sheetrock up. There were also holes in the ceiling where the wire came down for the lights. We took all of that down and replaced the stars with a sheetrock screw and we pulled the trim pieces down and put mud and tape on the joints. We wanted to retexture the ceiling because of mud and tape on the joints and the screw heads messed up the old texture. This is after we retextured the ceiling, we will have to paint it but it is 100% better looking.
This is a lot of work because you mix joint compound with water to thin it down and then use a texture roller to roll on the joint compound. This room is 10x14 and it took me three hours to do this. It is a much nicer look and I think it is much better than trying to find the trim pieces to replace the cut and broke pieces. I think next time I will make the joint compound a little thinner so it will go faster. It is supposed to be the consistency of pancake batter and I had it a little thicker than that. As we go along in this remodel we are learning a lot and some of it will come in handy when we start the AirCrete houses. Hope everyone has a good night/day, whatever it is in your neck of the woods. Thanks for spending some of your time reading our posts.
The redone ceiling looks a million times better! Nice job on it!!
Thanks only 35 more feet to go. I did not like it the other way, just did not look right and the areas we had to patch would have been ugly.
Lots of hard work there by the looks of it, those old ceilings look something right out of the 60s, be interesting to see how this continues to transform, I know how challenging refurbishing can be.!
Yes, it took a while! This office mobile home was built in 2009, as you see they have not made a lot of improvements in some things. LOL. Thanks!
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We’ve been remodeling our house for 20 years. Oh, my, it’s been 20 years! Yikes! So, I know how long some things can take. I’m enjoying following along with your small house improvements! Thanks for keeping us updated!
I really hope it does not take me 20 years. LOL. It is hard trying to balance everything that is going on in life and sometimes things take a while. I just do a little each day and slowly it will get done. Thanks!
Well, our house was once a duplex that nuns, who ran a hospital, lived in. Then it was turned into a dr.'s office. The hospital was going to tear it down to make room for a walking track. We were 19 and didn't have a lot of money and couldn't find a solid fixerupper in our price range, and the big guy at the hospital said we could have it if we moved it. So we got a little lot for about $7,000, and paid $35,000 to have the structure moved and put on a foundation. Instant fixerupper. We've worked on it here and there when we had some money and some time while we raised 3 kids. Things have sped up over the last couple of years since our kids are pretty much grown and we have a little more money coming in. I remember how excited we were when we replaced the chem shower with a real one! lol
It is the little things that make it all worthwhile.
Looks good man. Thanks for the post. I did upvote and resteem. God Bless
Thanks, brother!
Tedious work, but well worth the time and effort! Nicely done!