#Plaster and lathe walls install

I will hire out a few big plaster projects next year to re-do a couple full walls. Apply small amounts with a 2 putty knife until the. For the smallest cracks, you can use spackle. I've fixed some of the larger cracks in my house and I'm no professional, they look ok but you can still see that there was something there. You can also use spackle and a joint compound to patch cracks. Wood lath and plaster walls may be considered in accordance with codes, standards and listings published prior to 1943 whereby a wood stud wall assembly. Big cracks could mean structure issues, but in most cases it's just from the home shifting over the decades, especially in colder climates. Many people just leave the tiny cracks as long as they don't grow, myself included. You can put drywall over plaster, but expect that it will crack eventually because plaster walls are not perfectly flat and the drywall doesn't bend well.

But it's used in pretty much all new homes because it's still cheap, and still requires pretty much no skill to installĪlso removing plaster to replace with drywall is a HUGE project, and incredibly messy, not to mention you'll have a really tough time making standard sheets of drywall fit where you think they should, and you'll be left with ugly gaps between your floor and your wall, something pretty much every amateur flipper forgets when they start ripping into old houses.

#Plaster and lathe walls install

Modern drywall stems from the huge demand after WWII, a cheap and easy to install alternative to plaster was needed that could be managed by minimally skilled people at a low labor cost. Plaster is a far superior wall covering, and a big part of historical charm in my opinion, even the cracks that inevitably form over time.