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Because if we didn’t have bad timing we wouldn’t have any at all , the last day our contractor was working on the ceiling project found us out of town… which meant we didn’t see the finished product until the next day. And while I’m pleased to have our living room back to normal without a plastic room in the middle of it…

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I’m not entirely pleased with the end result.

Yes, the section of ceiling that used to look like this….

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Certainly looks much better like this.

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And the beam that used to look like this..

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Is much smoother now.

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And while it’s wonderful not to see the sag in the middle of the room and worry that the roof could fall on our heads at any moment…

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There are two issues I’m not willing to accept.

While it’s true I knew the replacement popcorn wouldn’t exactly match the existing, I wasn’t expecting such a glaring line of demarcation.

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It’s very noticeable in spots and that just won’t do.

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The other issue is stain resolution. Years of slow roof leaks left us with random brown spots on one end and though our guy hit them with some sort of Kilz product and turned them white again…

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It’s a noticeably different white and drives me crazy every time I look up.

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Since our contractor is due to return in two weeks to install new windows and a door in our bedroom, a plan will be hatched to deal with the problems. He knew I wasn’t happy and because he’s probably going to be the one to lay our new flooring in the living room he suggested we wait until then and repaint the whole ceiling. That’s probably what should have been done in the first place but we both thought we could get away with not doing it. Which is what you get for thinking. Trying to save time and money with home repairs is fruitless and rarely works.

Is the beam solid and more structurally secure? Yes.

Does it look better than it did? Absolutely.

Does it still need some tweaking? I’m afraid so.

Sigh…

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