What can go wrong?

[kareina]

DYI: Yesterday we started fixing the walls in the basement. We'd scraped away the loose bits of plaster (is it called plaster when made of lime? It is kalk in Swedish), wet the wall down, gave it a quick white wash, and then mixed up a nice thick blend of lime and water. Then discovered that hitting where one aims is really hard when throwing the wet kalk at the walls.

So, today we will start by building a work tool--a cross between a catapult, slingshot, and crossbow to deliver the kalk to the wall hard enough to really stick, and, hopefully, land where we want it

Comments

[beanolc]

I hope you take video of this! Sounds like a lot of fun.

[kareina]

Will do. The prototypes thus far haven't gotten to testing with the kalk. So far screws holding wooden bits have failed when test firing handfuls of snow. So we set it asside to finish building the workbench.

[madbaker]

Apparently it's called lime plaster. Go figure.
I suspect kalk and caulk are cognate.