Plaster stairway
Alexandria, Virginia

Finished stairway We furred the old ceiling with RC-1 channe
Finished stairway showing the ceiling on the third floor. We furred the old ceiling with RC-1 channel.
The old joists are real crooked and hard.
The channel straightens the ceiling most of the way, and provides a suitable surface to 
attach the blue board to.
The RC-1 veneer plaster basecoat
   The RC-1 channel is attached on one side.
The allows the channel to flex and take
the waves out of the ceiling, at least halfway.
  It only need to be attached every 48 inches,
allowing us to skip screwing to the joists that are too high.
   It was originally made for sound resistance in apartment buildings. It works great for old ceiling joists.		 Mynor applies veneer basecoat plaster
to the blue board. Blue board is like
sheetrock, but is made for a base for
veneer plaster. 
blue board We put metal lath on this wall
We hung the blue board ourselves in the stairway. We put metal lath on this wall.
There wasn't any  room for framing and blueboard.
plastered directly on the brick brown coat
A view of the bottom showing why I didn't have room for framing. The stringer on the stairs was only about 3/4" from the bricks.
We put metal lath on the wood framing and
plastered directly on the brick to maintain
the original thickness.		 A view of the brown coat on the same wall.
The old joists on the ceilings were real crooked A wood strip is nailed to the brown coat
The old joists on the ceilings were real crooked, indicated by the arrow. I used conventional lath and plaster on these ceilings to straighten them and fill them out to the thickness of the old
wood trim.		 A wood strip is nailed to the brown coat
on the arrises (outside corners). This gives
us a straight line to white coat to.
Finished plaster stairway Milk crate scaffold
Finished stairway. The plaster finishes just
behind the stringer, like it did originally.		 Milk crate scaffold is built on top of our main scaffold. This allows clearance for the banister.
beddy A picture of taking pictures.

Tim is going to put the cabinets in the kitchen.

We have a long way to go here.
We're waiting for the hangers to put up the blue board in the rest of the house.