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17th November

Plasterer was started a few weeks ago even before the lower roof was complete.  The Plasterer were basically coming in for a day or 2 each week doing the prep work.  It was only when the house was watertight 2 weeks ago, did they go full throttle on the plastering  .

Ceilings Rails

Normally the Gyprock is nailed directly onto the timber frame/floor joists.  The timber on the ceilings is never 100% uniform, so the level between each sheet of Gyprock will be slightly different.

This is normally not a problem in a small area, as you’ll rarely have more than 3 or 4 sheets of Gyprock.

However, since we have such an open area.  The unevenness of the Gyprock will end up creating a “wavy” effect on our ceiling and will be very noticeable

The Plasterer recommended we put in these adjustable metal rails in the ceilings and the Gyprock sheets will be screwed into these metal rails. The bulk of the prep work was leveling/installing these rails and adds a few dollars to the cost per meter. 

Insulation

Once the property was watertight, they started putting the insulation into the walls.  The insulation(Pink Batts) were sourced from the Plasterers, they buy so much of the stuff, so it ended up being cheaper than Bunnings. 

The insulation was put in both the internal and external walls.  Hopefully, this will keep out the heat during the summer, as we don’t plan on installing A/C just yet.

Walls/Ceilings

The walls and ceilings went up pretty fast, I’ll say it took about 4 days to do the entire house.  

I’m quite amazed at how they managed to get all the sheets to the 2nd floor without stairs.  I guess they’ll have to do this a lot, as stairs can’t usually be measured until the Gyprock is up.

The house looks much brighter once the walls/ceilings are up, hopefully it gets even more so when its painted.

The Gyprock sheets are held on by glue and screws.  All the screw holes and joints will be patched up.  They have this machine that dispenses plaster and tape for the joints.  

One person does the taping and another guy trowels it afterwards.  They are super quick and makes it look so easy!

They use staple guns to attach these metal corners for all the external joints, which will be plastered and sanded, creating a nice straight corner.

Cornices/Bulkheads

We wanted a clean modern look, so we opted for shadow lines instead of traditional 90 mm curved cornices.

They put in the wall sheets first, followed by the ceiling sheets that’s slightly lower and a few mm away from the wall.

They screw in these metal trims in the gap, which will be plastered over creating a nice shadowline look.

Here’s the finished bulkhead near the entrance, this is covers the pipes nicely.

Plasterers are probably a week away from completion.