Some Hope amongst all the doom and gloom.....

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Thanks for sharing DF...

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I restored a Church like that... of course I was paid to do it and it was not abandoned. The one I did is out in the middle of a wheat field miles from the nearest town and built in 1889. My grandpa grandma and a couple uncles are buried there. I can tell you if was one of the first jobs I did after quiting farming and there is a ton of healing that can take place doing a Church restoration and I can tell you of just more than a couple small miracles and one big one that took place while I was doing it.

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Total restoration! one of my favorite jobs.

[db51]

What is that you used for mending the plaster cracks? BTW...that is an awesome looking job you did there.

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Db, it's old plaster that is rotten a bit so it has horse hair in it and stuff to hold it together ... this church was built miles from the creek and sand so it was a chore.

What you do it cut out a v at the crack and use small 2" wide fiber glass tap with plaster then the next time go over it with a wide piece say 1' wide and mud over that a bit wider to blend or feather it. You can get that fiber glass tape in a roll 36" wide and cover the whole wall if you want but it wouldn't do any good. This old church is not heated or cooled during he week days so the extremes are going to cause cracks.

[SIllinoisfarmer]

What a neat story! Verb very nice job that you did as well!