Plastered

I don’t have very good plastering skills and by its very nature I knew that plastering the side wings of my new cloaks cupboard would not be an easy job. But I had no idea just what a nightmare it would be. The main problem was that the staples I used to fix the metal edge pieces were a bit thick and even though I’d hammered them in as much as I could without damaging the plasterboard they still stuck out a bit too much.

That made it difficult getting enough plaster in the right places to cover them and I had to use a bit of advice that I was given to me by someone with more experience than me many years ago. That was if it’s a tricky little job, like this one, don’t try to get it perfect from the outset. Do the best you can then when the plaster’s dry enough come back and sand it to flatten it off. Then come back again with a thin, wet coat of plaster to skim it over and make it perfect.

So that’s what I’ve done. All of the surfaces that I wanted to cover are covered but their finish is not to a high standard, as the images show. But that doesn’t matter because they’ll be fine to skim over once I’ve sanded them.

They are jobs for tomorrow, but at least I have the satisfaction of knowing that I’ve broken the back of the job and the worst part of the project, or at least what I think is the worst part, is now behind me. Onwards my friends!