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Old Posted Jul 30, 2017, 6:43 PM
CityBoyDoug CityBoyDoug is offline
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Originally Posted by MichaelRyerson View Post
Typically, they were sprayed on to a nice flat plastered ceiling. If one wanted, it was easy enough, although kinda dirty and time consuming, to scrape the cottage cheese off and, voila', nice flat plastered ceiling. Later they were sprayed on to sheetrock. They were thought to be sound dampening and somewhat fire retardant.
The scrapped off cottage cheese does not leave a nice flat ceiling. It leaves a total mess that's full of scrapes and holes. It needs to be replastered and patched.

This poor guy is full of holes too. Love gone all wrong in LA.


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Last edited by CityBoyDoug; Jul 30, 2017 at 9:09 PM.
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