Why You Might See Them in Just One Room
If you’re noticing these wood discs in just one room — as I did in that hotel — it likely means that room had worse sagging plaster than other spaces in the building. Or perhaps it was the only room that someone bothered to fix up. Or, the property’s plumbing from the upstairs leaked. Old buildings have their own stories, and the ceiling could reveal a thing or two with wood disks embedded.
Even if I have (or thought I had) the anticipation of normal returns, should I Go or Hedge?
Entirely up to you. Others choose to keep them on display — under-the-floor-style, especially in basements or workshops or vintage-y places. Others mud over them or sand everything smooth and flat and then repaint. (But once covered up, you wouldn’t even know they were there.)
But I kind of like it when I see them.” A DIY patch has a kind of quirk. It says, “Yo, somebody was working on this place.” And that matters, especially in a throwaway-everything world.
The Bottom Line
If your ceiling is staring down at you with wooden discs, don’t panic. They’re not some creepy spy network (or are they … only kidding! Probably.) These patches are pretty much just a good old fashioned fix for sagging plaster — a bow to all the people who came before us who went ahead and patched, but didn’t tear off the face of things by simply using wood disks in the ceiling.
Honestly? I love that. It’s one of those tiny things that reminds me: The good old days weren’t exactly pretty — but people knew how to run things.
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