Q Am I right that when sections of plaster break away from the lath, an accepted repair technique is to roughly fill in those gaps with drywall and then drywall over the whole wall or ceiling? — M.H., ...

Plastering has been around for ages. The Egyptians plastered their houses and tombs with a lime-gypsum material similar to modern plaster. The Greeks and Romans also recognized the sanitary value of ...

Before the arrival of prefabricated wallboard or “drywall” in the 1940s and ’50s, plaster was the material of choice for interior walls and ceilings in American homes. Portland cement plaster was ...

Plaster sags from ceilings or bulges from walls when the plaster keys embedded around the wood lath break loose. To repair ...

Before the arrival of prefabricated wallboard or "drywall" in the 1940s and '50s, plaster was the material of choice for interior walls and ceilings in American homes. Portland cement plaster was ...

In an otherwise charming older home, a sagging plaster ceiling can be an eyesore, especially when it’s a hodgepodge of cracks and crevices. To repair the entire surface requires mastering the fine art ...

Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 4 of this story. So you live in an older home with plaster walls and ceilings, and you need to renovate. You need to run new electric lines, or repair plumbing, or perhaps ...

Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 of this story. When you stop and think about it, a wall (or a ceiling) is a canvas. It’s a large flat surface that we hang wallpaper on, or paint. Just because we are ...

Q: We live in an older home - say, built around 1905 - that has the old horsehair plaster on the walls and ceiling. We would like to do over the ceilings and paint the walls. Would it be best to just ...

Q: We live in an older home — say, built around 1905 — that has the old horsehair plaster on the walls and ceiling. We would like to do over the ceilings and paint the walls. Would it be best to just ...

These plaster washers are designed to pull the sagging plaster back snug with the lathe behind it. To use them, you should first locate the wall studs and mark their location on the wall. Also mark ...