I used to think you could just slap drywall mud on any old wall until a job in a 1920s house in St. Louis.

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Found that out the hard way too. Those old plaster walls are a whole different animal. You get cracks that move with the seasons and crumbly spots that just eat the mud. Makes you respect the old ways of building.

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jana_hill271d ago

Wait, the cracks actually move? Like you can watch them open and close? That's wild (and honestly a little creepy). My old place just had the crumbly spots that turned into dust clouds if you looked at them wrong.