Monday, right after work, we get changed into our old work clothes.  It's hot outside and inside the house and tempers flare up a bit, but we managed, nonetheless.

Gilbert cut up all the old wood frames, and other pieces of wood and we put them in a big box. All the little boxes of old plaster had been piled up in the side entrance had to be moved.  We decided to put that up against the house and cover it with a tarp - garbage is only on Friday mornings.

We moved all the leftover gyprock and pieces of flooring, to our Baby Barn. These will certainly be used for another project.

ALL his tools have to be brought back, upstairs.  Did you know that men's tools are HEAVY!??!

We finally got the room all ready, for Gerry the crackfiller guy, to come tomorrow evening. He'll have an uncluttered area to work in. *s*

A good friend of mine, Judy Norman - her husband sent me this explanation, about our walls. With his permission, here is his text:

"Rosa those little strips of wood in back of the old wall are called a lath and the wall was made up of 'Lath and Plaster'. They would nail all the laths on, then put a rough coat of cement, render over the whole wall making sure they press the mortar into the gaps between the laths to ensure the plaster stayed on the wall. The next step would be to trowel on progressively finer coats of render finishing with a skim coat of plaster and there you have a wall."
 

Pretty interesting, eh?  *grin*

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