My house is about 150 years old, granite, and the floors sort of hang from the exterior walls. They sag. BUT the addition floor was put in by my neighbor and a friend, who refused to listen to anything my neighbour said and used a 2 foot level to lay out the joists. I was gone that week. Needless to say, the friend did not work on the project after I got home, and my neighbour and I finished the job. We fought the hump in hte floor clear up to the roof! The plaster in the old part is like glass, where it survives. The new plaster is not so much so, but is quite nice. We finished the attic, and my brother-in-law and his wife did the drywall finish, as a favor. They did high end homes in Kansas for a living. The finish was so bad I practically had to do the whole mess over. Now that we're rebuilding from the fire, I'm having the best plasterer around do the finish. She's a whole lot better than me at it. BTW this is not a male only thread. I have been a carpenter for 20+ years. My current job is a house we moved and added to what the customer already had. As I told my partner in crime, "There's plumb, square, and then there's right!" But I LOVE my laser level! CamiSu
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