It Seemed Like a Simple Thing..

So today Kathy said that she wanted to move the bureaus out from the wall in our bedroom, so she could vacuum behind them.  OK, that's almost easy.  Take out the drawers, carry them to the next room, and then move the bureaus.  Then we looked at the walls and realized that the whole room needed to be painted!  Anyhow, I got right to work and started chipping away at loose plaster and areas of the walls that had cracks in it.  The cracks are there because you are looking at the chimney which was used by the oil burner exhaust.  We have always had problems with the wall cracking because the oil burner would be used all winter which expanded the chimney bricks, and then in the summer with the oil burner off, the bricks contract.  So that's why the cracks in the plaster in this old house!