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hedgehog

(36,286 posts) Mon Oct 6, 2014, 03:00 AM Oct 2014

Replacing old plaster (but not the lath)

Sometimes with an old house, the plaster just gives up the ghost and starts crumbling. We had a friend who knocked down all the plaster, then tore out the lath as well. Our laths were in good shape, so we just applied the sheet rock right over them. The result was sheet rock with a nice solid backing which withstood the test of time and a pack of growing children.

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Replacing old plaster (but not the lath) (Original Post) hedgehog Oct 2014 OP

My first house was build in 1907, originally wood lath, had a remodel in the 30s.... NYC_SKP Oct 2014 #1

I knew "urban pioneers" in the 60s Warpy Oct 2014 #2

NYC_SKP

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1. My first house was build in 1907, originally wood lath, had a remodel in the 30s....

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Mon Oct 6, 2014, 04:41 AM

Oct 2014

And they used a perforated drywall board, rock lath?, not sure, but had the same brown coat then finish coat over it.

Solid as a rock, authentic plaster is very cool!

Warpy

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2. I knew "urban pioneers" in the 60s

Reply to NYC_SKP (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 12:25 PM

Oct 2014

who knocked the crumbling plaster off the walls and used drywall on all but one accent interior wall where they thought the lath looked interesting.

Oh, well, it was easy to hang pictures on.

I have to think they got sick of a spider incubator and sheetrocked that wall by now.

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