Xtra Fine Plaster Coats

With last week’s plaster cured, I go with another layer of plaster, but this time using the extra fine Master of Plaster. The extra fine is pretty much the same as the fine coat, but uses a finer grained sand. It’s used to the produce a smoother surface, especially after burnishing with a trowel and water. The ceiling goes on first and overall no issues. Compared with the TakCoat, the extra fine spreads very easily.

Ceiling plastered.

For the walls I mix in some pigment, but this time I dissolve the pigments in water before adding to the plaster. This produces a better result in that there’s no streaking of pigment. But like last week, it doesn’t drastically alter the color of the walls too much.

Walls with some green pigment added.

Finished plastering.

After the plaster is applied I go back through with a spray bottle and felt brush to burnish the plaster with water and a trowel. I get most of the surfaces pretty smooth, but there’s still spots that I miss. I’m not sure how the old school plasterers would get 100% smooth surfaces. Most of the plastering is done, but there is a section near the medicine cabinet that is a bumpy mess so I think that I’ll need to build this more up to get a smoother surface for wallpaper.

Jumping from the plaster, I do a few more rounds of work on the tub. I cook the legs in a crockpot of dish detergent and baking soda. After a few hours I get most of the paint off using a wire brush and some steel wool.

Paint and rust.

Paint is off, but still have rust.

The paint is off, but I still have a bunch of rust on the metal. Next week I’m going to investigate using a rust remover to see if that will clean off the rust instead of using a sanding disc.

Same progress with the tub, but here I use CitriStrip instead of the boiling crockpot. The tub has a lot more rust so I’ll try the rust removing gel there next week too.

Removing more paint from the tub.