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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
To directly answer your question, no, at least no in Calgary.
But to comment on it: It was far easier and cheaper for us to put up drywall on the ceiling than to scrape. Scraping won't necessarily get a smooth surface, and it can take a lot of time. Our contractor was able to quickly bang out the drywall, and have it ready to go. Less mess, less fuss, looks great.
Could be the same thing for the walls. For the sake of 1/2 inch, the time and energy it would take to put up some new drywall over the old stuff could save a lot of headache.
But, I don't know the size of the room, or how feasible that would be.
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That hadn't occurred to me, but sure seems a lot easier than trying to smooth out 109 year old plaster. Thanks for the suggestion, I'll find a drywaller/taper to do that portion, and then I can paint it myself.