![]() It could all come crashing down but at this point, I'm totally into this. I gotta say, I'm terribly excited about this whole process. It'll only be in the living room and dining room. His suggestion, based on period houses in SF, was do a rectangular molding that's about 1" think that runs 3" down the wall and 10" across the ceiling. I don't have high ceilings so I've been shying away from doing real crown: I think it would make the ceiling feel lower.īut I thought about doing a very small cove in plaster and I wanted to ask him about it. ![]() I'd been thinking about doing something at the wall-ceiling joint, where people put crown molding. He's not supposed to start working on my project for another 6-8 weeks but he was in the area so he wanted to drop off some metal lath he'll use on the job. I ran into the plasterer yesterday by accident. The intention is to put a finish coat everywhere, even the old plaster, but that can only smooth out so much difference in the substrate. I haven't found anyone (yet) that does "standard" (lime?) plaster, the ~3/4" stuff I have.īut I don't know how much flexibility there is in depth of veneer plaster, both in terms of how thick a layer blueboard can support nor whether veneer plaster will cure correctly if it's thicker than normal. The question is, can we put something up in those areas that matches that existing plaster so there's no visible transition. The plaster's been taken off in some areas because we have to reframe for new windows (both placement and size). The bigger question remains, for me, to figure out how to match my existing walls, like this: I'm sure it takes longer to put up more pieces, but it's unclear whether that's a significant amount of time in the overall job. That's what the internet has to say about why people liked sheetrock better: it was faster to put up. Rock lath is fairly straightforward (as I understand it), it just comes in smaller sheets than sheetrock/blueboard. I actually think wood lath is harder to deal with than rock lath. One thing I will say, both the GC and the sheetrock guy were touching my walls saying, "yeah, I can see why you like these." Interested to hear what the plaster guys say. Or we could just give up on those walls and put up all blueboard + veneer. So wondering about 1/2" blueboard (or even 5/8") plus a couple of coats of veneer plaster, possibly applied more heavily than normal, to equal the 6/8-7/8 original plaster + rock lath. I don't know if anyone (even the specialist) will do traditional 1/2" plaster. (Supposed to be getting a plaster specialist to come look.) There are places that big gaps have to be reapplied, next to possibly preserved original plaster. The plaster is pretty much the classic application for the time (late 40s): 1/4" button board/rock lath (with occasional use of wire lath), then around 1/2" of brown plaster plus a thin layer of finish white plaster. So we've started demoing the plaster where openings (doors, windows, passage ways) are changing (which is, among other things, every window.) Part of me wants to just plaster over patches and all the existing plaster to get to a smooth finish and keep as much of the existing plaster as I can. Will veneer plaster feel a lot different from the existing plaster if I go down to the studs? At the surface? Would the wall feel less solid since it has <1/8" of plaster instead of ~1/2"? Haven't found a place to see an example of veneer plaster locally. I can feel a huge difference between sheetrock and my plaster. (The GC says the calked it and it looks bad.)Ģ: Go down to the studs and replace with veneer plasterģ: Patch as necessary and then veneer plaster over the patches and all the existing plaster, i.e., "run the walls".īut I don't really know what veneer plaster feels like. ![]() The plaster has cracked, which isn't surprising. The current plaster is textured and in two different ways: relatively smooth in the kitchen and bath, what the GC calls "old world" elsewhere. I'm redoing all the windows, including changing all the sizes and/or placements, so lots of new framing/wall finishing/patching. Total wall finish thickness is about an inch, the combination of the lath and plaster Strictly speaking my house isn't an Old House. Pretty soon I have to make a choice on how I want to deal with my plaster walls during my remodel. ![]()
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