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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 |
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Lovely holes in plaster/lath walls - where to buy materials?
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(top posted for your convenience) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Some might say since you always include the above it would be (top posting to be annoying and illogical). |
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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. |
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