Quote Originally Posted by Tuckervill View Post

There is no market for the old windows (I looked for a year before I found anyone else even selling their old windows--this was before I replaced mine.) Now my preservationist bent is being challenged again because I can't find anyone to replace the plaster in the upstairs bathroom. They all want to just slap up drywall and call it good, but I'm just not doing that. All the plaster in the house is good, except where they glued paneling to it! I won't be doing traditional plaster (we'll be putting in veneer plaster, which goes over blueboard) and we'll have to do it ourselves, I think.

Karen
Keep your old windows in case you decide to sell the house at a later time. It will be a good selling point. As far as the plaster. There is a product called Master of Plaster that is really easy to use. I only had to do a skim coat though and I don't know how far gone your walls are. If you go to the Old House Journal Website there is a poster named Clarence Bauer ( I think I spelled that correctly). He is a master plasterer and he highly recommends the stuff and gives great instructions on how to repair walls. Are there holes or did the whole wall get destroyed?