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Hanging artwork on plastered brick?
I’m wanting to hang a couple things on my wall (small mirror, picture, light wall hanging etc) but the walls are brick, covered in plaster and paint so i cannot use 3M hooks - pulls the paint off, and ...
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New plaster over top of exposed horsehair plaster in Bathroom
I've taken wainscoting off of my bathroom wall that seems to have been around since the house was built (1900). Under one of the walls is an exposed horsehair plaster that was done right up against ...
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Plastering a gap around a window
Between one of our wooden windows and the wall there is a gap of about 5 cm that is only very loosely filled with plaster (see below). The craftsman who did some other plastering work in our house ...
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How should I prep a plaster wall for skim after removing wallpaper?
I just removed wallpaper from my original 1942 walls and am prepping to skim the walls.
How should I clean/wash/prep the walls to make sure the walls, which don't feel sticky, are ready to accept a ...
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What is my wall made of and how should I hang a 50lb mirror?
I plan to hang a mirror weighing 50lb on the wall. What type of anchors should I use?
I think my wall is plaster over drywall, but I'm not sure. The house was built in the US in 1952, and the surface ...
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Help removing wallpaper and painting on old plaster walls
I think I'm a bit over my head with this. This is my first major do it alone DIY. My fiance and I just bought a co-op built in 1917 and wanted to strip the old vinyl wallpaper from the bathroom.
I'm ...
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Drywall gap around window screed: plaster or drywall strips?
Rehabbing old plaster and lath walls; drywallers did a good job but left a gap around window screed: this is the wooden border to which horizontal lath board was attached and which received plaster ...
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How to patch a wood lath plaster rounded corner?
I am attempting to repair a rounded plaster corner. (Image below). The plaster was blown out during an electrical re-wire for the bathroom switch pictured.
I’m assuming the wire corner bead runs ...
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How to remove surface mold on shower walls and ceilings?
I'll be doing a small bathroom remodel on a VERY old house which mainly includes installing bathroom fan and a full paint job as the main tasks. On first walk through, I noticed that the house has ...
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Replacing trim set in horse hair plaster
There are a few places in my house where I would like to replace the door trim, but the walls are horse hair plaster. Is there anyway to do this without having the plaster totally fall apart?
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Should I plaster the walls in my new house?
I have a newly built house and I'm evaluating how to proceed with the painting of the rooms, to define what I can do myself and what has to be done by professionals.
The ceiling is already spray-...
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Plaster crumbling - why and how do I fix it?
I seem to have a bit of a condensation problem in my flat and can't quite pinpoint the cause. Now I've noticed that in one of the bedrooms a patch of plaster about the width of my hand has crumbled ...
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Insulation in basement with plaster walls
I’m looking to finish my basement. I have a 1940’s cape cod with a poured concrete basement. The basement walls have a fairly thick layer of plaster to them, very rough looking. It’s and in good ...
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Drilling into stone wall with plaster on top
I'm trying to hang a curtain rod. The wall is irregular stone, with plaster covering it. I have masonry bits, a drill, and an impact driver (no hammer drill, though I may be able to borrow one).
When ...
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Drywall over Ceiling tiles and Plaster Ceiling
I have a 100 year old house with a room with old outdated ceiling tiles that I want to disappear. I don't know if the tiles are glued or stapled on but there are furring strips that run the length of ...
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How can i meet two uneven ends of plaster on ceiling?
Remodeling my new home and took a wall out. Plaster was different thickness on different sides of the wall sometimes up to 3/8s. How do I patch it nice and even, is it even possible? Should I drywall ...
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crumbly plaster
I'm in a new build, timber frame house with the back clad in plaster.
The plaster seems quite "sandy", if that makes sense. If I rub it my hand comes away dusty and gritty.
Around one window I can ...
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Would this entire wall need re-skimming or just where the wardrobe has been removed?
I have removed a fitted wardrobe and damaged the plasterboard underneath slightly. The wall next to where the wardrobe was is already skimmed and painted. I'm not going to attempt to skim where the ...
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Trying to rehab tired plaster ceiling need help please
I'm trying to rehab and old plaster ceiling from a 1940s apartment in Manhattan. I have scraped off most of the plaster and much of the old patch work but a lot of the patches and more recent work is ...
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How to anchor coat hooks and shelving in a rock-lath & plaster wall?
I've purchased an older home from an era when they used rock lath and plaster for the walls. I had never heard of this kind of construction, though I've done plenty of electrical wiring in older homes ...
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Re-mounting electrical switch box between studs after removing plaster and lath
I am refinishing a room that had a gang of light switches mounted directly to the lath, between the studs. The lath is out, and drywall is going up next. I don't wish to change the horizontal position ...
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How do I achieve this texture?
I need to make some wall repairs in our house (lath and plaster). After making the repairs, I'll need to add texture over the repairs. After doing a bit of research, it looks like this is a so-called "...
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What cause the wall damage?
We just repainted the wall and fixed the plaster last November due to water damage. Recently, I discovered that there appears to have some water damage on the wall again. This damage is right below a ...
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What's the difference between pottery plaster and plaster used on interior walls?
My wife is an artist, so when we needed an interior wall plastering she did it, using her pottery plaster (not plaster of Paris). When we told a friend he laughed and suggested we get some wall ...
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Crack in joint between molding and ceiling
I have a very old house with plaster walls. After getting a new roof, a large crack opened up between the molding and the ceiling where the wall is pulling away, but only along the one outside wall. ...
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Interior walls - why skim coat with joint compound?
Roughly put, my understanding of the history of interior walls is:
In olden days, plaster. Good/bad/indifferent - not everything was 3-coat. Good work took time. $$$
Drywall. Faster, cheaper. ...
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What metal is along the top of a plaster wall in a 1930s house?
I have a house built in the 1930s with lath and plaster walls. I was planning to install a hook, so I needed to find a stud. My normal stud finder didn't work (as expected), so I used some rare earth ...
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How to repair this damp ceiling patch?
While repainting my house, I pulled some plaster off the hallway ceiling and ended up with this beauty:
It's about a meter wide. Underneath is a layer of some kind of board, and a damp patch with ...
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Shorten door frames
All the doors in my house look like this. So I want to remove the metal frame and put a wooden one with the same height that the door I already have. I was thinking to put a piece of drywall and just ...
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Kitchen Installation new build: How long after heat goes on?
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Our kitchen suppliers have told us that the kitchen should only go in 6-8 weeks after the heat has been turned on in our new build. Their concern is how dry the house is, I assume the issue ...
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Insulating exterior walls - 1890s City Home Remodel
My exterior walls are double wythe bricks and covered with an inch of plaster on the inside. I would like to insulate them without hurting the brick as they are in good condition. I have read that ...
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Fixing masonry opening in chimney for water heater vent
What the right way to fix this? This is the opening to a chimney, for the vent pipe for a water heater. I needed to enlarge the opening from 3 inch to 4 inch. You can see the round part on the left ...
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What processes do I need to carry out before repainting my wall?
I’m thinking about redecorating my bedroom. It’s not very big, it’s surface area is 25.5m squared roughly.
The walls in my room are currently painted and are sort of textured as they have little ...
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How to attach a top plate to a plaster and lath ceiling for a closet?
I'm looking to add a closet to a room in my house. I took down the walls (and have since had drywall put back up) so I know where the studs are in the walls, but I don't know where the ceiling joists ...
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Can you paint directly over feathered plaster/plasterweld?
I have been doing a lot of plaster patching on my old 1920s era house. The basic approach here is the holes were filled with blueboard, then we used 2 coat base and finish plaster (USG diamond). I ...
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Can I delay veneer plaster on blueboard?
In a new construction, we're about to the stage of hanging drywall. Our preference is to finish with veneer plaster. However, we're also somewhat over-budget and looking for ways to either reduce or ...
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wobbly thermostat on plaster wall
Just replaced the old honeywell thermostat to a Nest. But the thermostat hole is a bit more emptier than it's supposed to be. Some small rocks fell out. Now the new thermostat is a bit wobbly.
I ...
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BX cable in plaster by sink
I am re-plastering a wall in my kitchen after removing some damaged plaster. I am burying the electrical in BX cabling before plastering as allowed by NEC. However, NEC does say BX is not allowed in ...
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Rectify smooth filler patches on sand and cement wall
Someone did me a favour and sand and cemented by porch (long story). It had a few cracks afterwards and as I had lots of other things to filler I decided to filler all of the cracks.
Yesterday I ...
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Dining room ceiling repair
So the long story shortened is my wife swapped out fans and now I have a gap in my ceiling where the old fan was and the new fan is. Sadly the dilemma doesn't stop there so I bought a 2 part ...
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Is there any techique to “feather” or make a very shallow repair with plaster of paris?
I know plaster is great for skim coating a whole wall or filling holes, but what about really shallow uneven spots? I can do this with pre-mixed mud, probably because it's thixtropic--it thins out and ...
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Plastering: Solutions to a cornice that has fallen off
I went into a room today and saw that this had happened to the cornice.
I have no plastering experience but some general DIY experience. Is it feasible to plaster it oneself, and if so what tools ...
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Raising internal floor - to screed or not to screed?
The porch of our home has been made part of the interior. We now need to raise the floor to meet the level of the existing floor internally.
The total height of the step is 5cm. So the floor needs to ...
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how to sand-plaster a plaster wall without spreading plaster dust everywhere?
I have the following wall I need to sand
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Issue is the wall is made of plaster.
Is there a way to sand it without spreading plaster dust all over my kitchen, please?
Thanks.
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Interior 30s wall construction
can anyone identify the materials in this wall? It's an interior wall in a 1930s UK house. Obviously ... bricks, and the outside is some kind of lime plaster I think. What is the black material?
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How to attach beadboard to plaster walls without blowing out nails?
I am replacing old beadboard on our plaster walls. Around the windows there seems to be cement under the plaster. No matter if I use a nail gun, panel screws, nothing will penetrate the cement. The ...
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What determines if a plaster can be floated or can only be sanded as the final smoothing step
I'm looking at some datasheets for interior plaster by Saint-Gobin (which unfortunately are not available in English as far as I can tell) and I'm miffed why some interior (white) cement-based ...
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Paint/plaster texture question
My walls and ceiling are skip trowl lath and plaster and (many layers) painted, I’m doing some cutting and patching and using DAP Patching Plaster. It goes on great but after I sand and paint it the ...
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Removing recessed lights for painting
We've just had a new kitchen, and the ceiling has been re-skimmed. I need to paint this, but we now have spotlights in the ceiling; see the picture below:
In order to get this off, I can see a small ...
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Lime plaster in Mumbai India - pros and cons?
I live in Mumbai India, in an old building. I don't know how long it is, but at least a century old, I would estimate. There is plaster deterioration in various parts of the structure. I'm done ...
