I think at one point our chimney was trying to escape. There's a BIG crack along the entire chimney line in the office wall, and the plaster is even pushed out about 1/4". It's not something a bunch of plaster washers can fix, since there's absoloutely no give in the wall. Our chimney just moved and took the wall with it.
The chimney movement seems to have happened pretty early in the Prairie Box's life. The lovely 1940s-ish wallpaper was covering the crack, as was the painted "liner paper" (for lack of a better term) that is in every room in the house. But, underneath the liner paper was a strip of fabric tape. Also, the walls in here were originally painted turquoise, not naked plaster like the living room and hallway.
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Di,
I have been reading your blog for about a year now; came across it while I was reseraching Prairie Four Square Houses. It's nice to know that someone else out there is slowly making some progress towards lovingly restoring an old house.
I was surfing the net because my husband and I had bought a 1918 Eaton's catalogue house. It was located on a farm site near a mid sized town in central Saskatchewan Canada and we moved it to some land near the city of Saskatoon, Sask.
I was surfing looking for ideas about lights, trim, tin celing(love yours), colors, doors, windows. Basically ideas for the whole nine yards and I found 3 blog sites that I have been keeping up with. I enjoy yours as it has a nice personal touch and you are a good writer. I always get ticked with my friends and family who never leave comments on my blog site so decided I shouldn't be like that. So while I am sitting here having an open house to sell our current house I am again surfing the net but this time I thought I would say hi and keep up the good work.
Bernie
Ps can't figure out how to send this comment without an account so hope it reaches you as an anonymous one. You can reach me at
http://blogs.usask.ca/1918_Eatons_Eager/
Holy cow, that's one serious crack in the wall. I don't think it's too much to be concerned about though, looks like it's moved all it's going to go.. Maybe you can "float" some joint compound or similar to smooth the wall out a bit. The wallpaper probably makes it a bit less noticeable though..
Great Job
interesting topic , I would like to read more on this topic and about house paint .
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