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.

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.

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.

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.