On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 21:02:27 -0400, "Steve"
wrote:

Daughter just bought a 100 yr old home.
The bedroom walls, I'm told, are horsehair plaster.
I got a quick look at one of the walls today while they were Opening a wall
up to connect two bedrooms.
Looks like a 3x3 stud with horizontal lath.sp? About 3/8" of plaster over
the lath.

All the bedrooms were painted over wallpaper.
The paint peels right off of the paper in full sheets.
15 minutes to peel all the paint off the paper.

Now how to deal with the paper???
We've been told removing the paper can damage the plaster...
Son in law asked to borrow my sander to sand it smooth....

Anything special about horsehair plaster I should know ???

I've never seen paint peel off like this did...

What would be the best way to finish/repair these walls???

TIA

Steve


Carefully remove all the plaster and soak it in water for a few weeks.
Stir daily. Strain all the liquid off and dump it. Now rinse what
was saved before the strainer, and you should have pure horse hair.
Now take your carpentry tools and build a rocking horse. Then strand
by strand glue the hair on the horse, and you can give your child a
realistic looking horse made out of REAL (antique) horse hair. When
your kid is too old for a pony, sell this horse for $500,000 on Ebay.
(plus $1,000,000 shipping) Remember, it's a valuable VINTAGE horse.
After you sell the horse you can just tear the old house down and
build a new one.