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I don't know your middle Initially listen Jack Mitcham, who knows you know?
With me came from wherever other things come from? With me? So Tommy
and his friend Leslie Sagretti hosts the weekend program The Money Pit, heard on
a lot of these same stations. But beside that, they also have their
podcast, and they have their newsletter lots of information and is a special added
attraction. We have our listeners who send in questions so that Tom can answer
them. Here's Tracy listening to the program as a has wallpaper on top of
a cracked plaster wall and she wants to know how to fix the wall.
Well, I can I'm just going to take a wild guess. You can't
fix it with a wallpaper on it? How's my intuition, Tommy, Well,
look, she says, her plaster walls are very badly cracked. Should
she remove the wallpaper and repair the walls or is it better to just sheet
rock over what's there now? If the walls are really badly cracked, you're
going to have a heck of a lot of repairs to do there. And
yeah, she do need to remove the wallpaper to do that. When plaster
walls get to be what I can only imagine now is very very old,
you can maintain them and keep them going, but you get a lot of
cracks, it's time to give up. And I do believe having done this
both ways, you know, do you tear off the old plaster and drywall
studs the way a hospital today, or do you put new drywall on top
of the old plaster. I have determined that the second way is the better
way to go, because what I discovered was when you take off the old
plaster and try to try all over that because plaster is put on wet and
gives the gave the tradesmen the opportunity to smooth things out and level things out.
Even if the walls does were not exactly plumba then they can actually fix
that. But with drywall you can't. So I found there was a lot
more work to go with drywall with having taken the plaster off, not to
mention the fact that it's a heck of a message job. So what I
would do is if the walls are that bad, is I would drywall on
top. But now you don't have to use half ins drywall. You could
use three ads drywall that's available. And the only asition, the only modifications
you're gonna have to make your tracy is that when you get around outlets and
light switches, you're gonna have to extend those outlet boxes and switch boxes out
of the flush with the front of the drywall. So I remember because I've
lived in this farm area all my life, and the older homes, I
remember that when I was married, they'ved in one of the oldest homes in
Framingham and the plaster was applied to horsehair on top of slats. So when
we were redoing, especially the seemings, we just took we took the floor
up in the attic and I used a sledgehammer and just knocked all of that
stuff down. What an ungodly mess a man. But the old hous you
can have, you can have, we would laugh. You could have chip
last jip laugh is what you're describing. It's kind of like the early version
of sheet rock, right. It would put up these boards that were like
around two foot by four foot and then they would plaster on top of those.
So those those chip lack boards held held the plaster. And actually that
is probably the hardest wall surface that was ever done, because you can tell
when if you just knock on those walls with your knuckles, you can hear
it's sound like seramic. You know, yeah, good, And you don't
want to be breathing that stuff in no matter what do not well, if
you're going to tear over a place like that, you definitely don't want to
be breathing in all the dust stuff it comes up. And by the way,
to that end, aside from you know, having a mask, I
always like to set up my fans in the house so I depressurize the room
and working in So other words, you did one room, I need windows
on one side, windows on the other. I'd put a box span a
window so it was always pulling the dust out, get it out, and
then you give a window, leave a window open on the other side,
so that you had some makeup air and that made it a lot more pleasant
to work in it space. At moneypit dot com Forward Slash Podcast, you
got some ideas for space saving in a small bathroom. We've all had experience
with those damn small bathrooms. What do you do? Yeah, yep,
that's right. We go through all the different options for small bathrooms and how
you can make them feel a lot larger. So things like the fixture design
right. You can use corner showers quick called quadrant showers. There are different
sized toilets. There are storage options, for example, where you can store
on using the vertical space on top of an existing toilet. You would might
want to consider using a flat top versus around top. There's lots of little
tricks of the trade like that for picking up storage in a small space and
getting everything in that small backford space that you need. Yep, all right,
So that tip you can get at moneypit dot com Forward Slash Podcast.
You also have the benefit of Tom and his expertise and the moneypit dot Com
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because the world is full of people who want to do it better in their
home, and there's nobody better to help you do it better than Tom Kreidler
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