On 17/5/20 1:13 am, dpb wrote:
On 5/16/2020 8:37 AM, Xeno wrote:
On 16/5/20 10:59 pm, Jim GM4DHJ ... wrote:
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Lath and plaster, seen entire houses done with that method.
Admittedly, the houses were ancient but it looked like a very time
intensive job. Just think how hard it was to get surfaces flat.
Would have taken real skill.

can't get good lathers these days.... used to be an education to see
them work ....never mind getting horse hair......

I know a couple who do building restoration work back in my home state.

"Ancient" in what sort of time frame?* 100 years?* Still the routine way

Well, my first house was 53 vintage and it had plasterboard sheets. The
only difference between those and the current is that they had horsehair
through the middle of it.

then; gypsum board was in its infancy...the house here was all lath &
plaster until redid to add insulation to exterior walls in late '70s;
put drywall up instead of going back.* Virtually all ceilings/interior
walls are still original plaster.

The only lathwork in that house was in the shower. The shower cubicle
consisted of laths rendered with cement upon which tiles were laid. It
wasn't done that way on the reno. ;-)

I can call a half-dozen here in a town of under 30K population that are
quite good...they keep busy with remodels and repair work and the
occasional new construction that wants the original.

Comparatively, it is time-consuming which large part of why it has been
replaced -- labor costs are the easiest thing to trim to bring building
costs down.* A more time-efficient adequate solution will get the bid in
the majority of cases.

But, it's surprising to the non-experienced just how fast they can
go...but not as fast as the sheetrock crew can get from bare studs to
finished surface.


Indeed, plasterboard sheets go up very quickly.






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