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October 17, 2004
Remodeling, part II
I got tired this morning of sanding the ceiling and tried to apply a coat of primer before having removed all the paint. I'd encouraged myself by sanding down to the plaster in a number of spots, removing plenty of paint flakes and looking, according to Nathalie, like an extra from the Night of the Living Dead.
Unfortunately, when I started rolling primer onto the places I hadn't yet tried to apply paint, even more, larger flakes broke off.
While sanding, I noticed some of what I was removing appeared to be traces of wallpaper. Maybe the reason the ceiling looked so bad before is that whoever painted it before me had to remove wallpaper and didn't perhaps adequately get all that cleaned off. That might explain not only my troubles, but also why the existing paint was so ugly.
As cleaning everything away down to the plaster looks like an all-day sanding job, we've decided to look into papering the ceiling, then painting that.
Posted by Mark at October 17, 2004 03:52 PM