Lovely holes in plaster/lath walls - where to buy materials?
 

Hello alt.home.repairers,

The darling wife's de-papering of the den of our 100-year-old house has
revealed why there was paper up in the first place: crumbly walls.
I've got several 12" holes down to the lath, and the whole thing needs
a fresh skim-coat before paint will look decent.

So, I've figured out that I need something like structolite or
gyspolite as a base-coat for the deep holes, and then something like
Diamond finish coat (or Uni-Kal or X-KALibur, etc) over that.
Preferably, I'll apply a bonder (plasterweld or USG pink or Durex
plasterbond) to old plaster before skim-coating, and expanded metal
lath over the existing lath to enhance the keying for the base coat.

Sounds great, but I haven't been able to find ANY or these things at
the 5 hardware and big box shops I've been to. At most of these
places, they stare at me like I'm a freak and then steer me to the
Durabond 20/60/90 and tell me to use that for my basecoat and regular
spackle for the top coat. Sounds a bit dodgy.

I'm in Chicago. Where can I buy the right stuff?

Thanks,
TF1

PS: I realize that plastering ain't trivial, but I'm going to give it a
try. My back-up plan is to lay 1/4 drywall over all the wals, so there
ain't much harm in giving this a try first. I

Lovely holes in plaster/lath walls - where to buy materials?
 

I think you may be being a bit ambitious to take on plastering.
As you have discovered, wall papering may have been used to help
the plaster, though it was quite normal to do even as brand new.
If the overall condition is really bad, you may want to consider
reinstalling one of the wall papers made for repair.

Structolite is a USG product. Contact any plaster contractor
listed in your yellow pages and ask where they are buying their
materials. They may sell to you from their stock or tell you what
wholesaler they use. The local supplier here happens to be a
cement company in their "dry goods" division. These are not
lumber yard or borg items.

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DanG (remove the sevens)




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Hello alt.home.repairers,

The darling wife's de-papering of the den of our 100-year-old
house has
revealed why there was paper up in the first place: crumbly
walls.
I've got several 12" holes down to the lath, and the whole thing
needs
a fresh skim-coat before paint will look decent.

So, I've figured out that I need something like structolite or
gyspolite as a base-coat for the deep holes, and then something
like
Diamond finish coat (or Uni-Kal or X-KALibur, etc) over that.
Preferably, I'll apply a bonder (plasterweld or USG pink or
Durex
plasterbond) to old plaster before skim-coating, and expanded
metal
lath over the existing lath to enhance the keying for the base
coat.

Sounds great, but I haven't been able to find ANY or these
things at
the 5 hardware and big box shops I've been to. At most of these
places, they stare at me like I'm a freak and then steer me to
the
Durabond 20/60/90 and tell me to use that for my basecoat and
regular
spackle for the top coat. Sounds a bit dodgy.

I'm in Chicago. Where can I buy the right stuff?

Thanks,
TF1

PS: I realize that plastering ain't trivial, but I'm going to
give it a
try. My back-up plan is to lay 1/4 drywall over all the wals,
so there
ain't much harm in giving this a try first. I

Lovely holes in plaster/lath walls - where to buy materials?
 

DanG wrote:


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Some might say since you always include the above it would be (top
posting to be annoying and illogical).

Lovely holes in plaster/lath walls - where to buy materials?
 

Yes, the heavy wall liner is another option - and cheaper than the 1/4
drywall. However, the big holes still need to be patched, and hence
I'll want structolite and bonder to do that properly.

As for the skim coating... maybe I'll be up to the task, maybe not.