On Sep 26, 9:01 am, N8N wrote:
On Sep 25, 7:22 am, "RBM" wrote:

"jim evans" wrote in message

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I have never lived in a house with plaster walls. A friend asked me
how you tell if your walls are plaster or drywall. How do you tell?

Go into the attic and look under the insulation

eh, might not tell you for sure. My house was built in '48 or '49 and
it has plaster over gypsum sheet lath - looks like drywall from
behind.

nate

My house was built somewhere in the 40's if not earlier.
When I had the bathroom remodeled in 1978 (I think)
I saved all that gorgeous lath that they took out of the walls.
Have used it for so many little projects! Like building a screen
n front of the trash area in back, and building screens for under
the back porch. Sigh! They don't make 'em like they used to...