Hot mud and rock

Dry wall
We are not slowing down, lots to do before zans family shows up next weekend. We had a cover inspection a few days ago which allowed up to cover the exposed walls, hence electrical, plumbing, framing and finally insulation were done and inspected to code. We are working with wily ol Simon from oz and cranking out the dry wall. It is so nice to see it all covered and clean. Simon is taping the gyp board and skim coating the existing lath and plaster walls to give us a nice smooth finish through out. I have been working at laying the cement board on the floors of all the bath rooms and on the walls of the shower on level 1 around the tub on level 2. Also, I though it would be a good idea to use it for the first three feet of the basement bathroom; incase the basement ever gets wet as such things happen here in the pacific nw. A while back Zan and I had been discussing how to handle the ceiling of the living room. When we removed the existing acoustical tiles, what remained were glue globs or cow patties as we describe them. With great effort we found them very difficult to come off. Further, there were long cracks in the existing plaster where the wall of the master bedroom sits above. We decided to put up new ½” ceiling board all the way around leaving a 5” reveal were the ceiling steps up to meet the original crown molding. We were afraid to pull the molding and break it so we settled on this solution. It looks great! I still had to heat gun and scrape the cow patties off all the way around the perimeter but it was a lot better than doing the whole thing just to have massive cracks in the ceiling. We are very happy with how it turned out. Check out all the pictures. Its amazing to see the spaces change.