Well we have been working on the hallway this week.  Yesterday dh ripped down the old ceiling.  Instead of plaster most of it had been replaced at one time by flattened cardboard boxes LOL!  We found this in one bedroom we did last year also.  They look like they are at least 50 year old bear boxes.

This pic dh took after getting one sheet of drywall up.  Forgot to get some shots before he started to work lol.  The ceiling was slightly unleval so to avoid bumps he added a layer of strapping.

Then we found THIS!

Yup  it's a yellow jacket nest at least the size of a basketball, up in the attic.  This WHY we did NOT do this renovation in the summer LOL.   Can you just imagine if dh had started ripping down the ceiling in the summer and found a live nest this big???  YIKES!

This is one side of the hallway ceiling.  We drywalled yesterday afternoon. 

Yup that's REAL horse hair LOL.  Dh was surprised when I showed him the old plaster really had horse hair in it.   He's seen plaster houses before but never one that actually had horse hair.

Dh also ripped the plaster off the walls yesterday.  Today we are putting up new drywall and wood on the bottom.

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Posted by Amanda

AHHHHHH!!!!! I HATE wasps!!!!! I had to laugh at the horse hair, that solved a mystery for me, I couldn't figure out what on eath all this fiberous stuff in the plaster here was!!!

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