![]() Just run your drop ceiling grid off the walls, you should be good. Like they say "It's better to leave old dogs lie" maybe the best way of dealing with the plaster ceiling. and the landlord had the ceiling done only 4 months earlier and this house was only 76 years old. well Dad came in picked up his son walked back to the kitchen to have dinner and the ceiling in the den came crashing down and smashed the playpen. Then once its stuck on good, try to remove the plaster and lath together in one shot. Maybe you can apply contact paper or wallpaper to the exposed side. This is just an Idea I had that may prove sucessful, or may turn out to be a disaster. now if the keys are broken on the plaster and you have what look like big bumps remove them don't take a chance the weight of plaster is alot more then people think, I had a customer who's landlord came in and instead of fixing the plaster he had it covered up with drop ceiling, well the custmer was getting dinner ready for him and his 14 month old son, his son was in the den in the playpen. I have never done this before, nor do I know if it will work. If the plaster doesn't show any pulling away from lath leave it, Don't put boards into it. I figured an easy and quick solution might be to hang sheetrock, paint the ceiling, put some mopboard around the floor and some trim around the ceiling.Drywall and plaster two different skills two different products, the reason drywall was invented was to make wall construction faster and simpler The one wall also seems to be bulging out a little in one spot about a foot in diameter. Also, along the bottom of the wall their isn't any mop board so their is also a crack around the floor. Since then it has about 2 coats of paint on top of the wallpaper. My mom's famous wallpapper job 25 years ago included duct tape over those corners I spoke of. The corners are all crumbling and have roughly 1/4 inch gaps in them. The wall has a few holes along the bottom about the size of a fist. Kind of sucks that each room only has 1 or 2 outlets! Just seems like it may be easier to sheetrock over the lathe and plaster. This little room I'm considering sheetrocking only has one outlet. ![]() Since every room in the house is lathe and plaster I'm not going to mess with any of the electrical. Just the trim around the window and door. Concerning the room, being that i't's so small, it doesn't have much trim at all. I have emailed pics before from my phone. I may be able to figure something out with my cell phone camera. ![]() Thanks! I don't currently have a digital camera. I just glued that extra piece to the new trim, stained it and it looks great. I have fixed and repainted all the rooms in our house the first yr we bought it, so you could easily fix the walls, but installing new wiring/insulation is a big plus.Ībout the trim, when I did the bathroom, I had to add a little smaller than 1/4" piece of wood to the new sheetrock side of the trim so it would set flush w/ the window trim piece. Is there anyway for you to post pics of the cracks you have now on your current plaster walls? You can take the picture put them on your computer go to Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket and create a link or post the html code in this reply box. It isn't a big room so it wouldn't be to bad. So like mark said this is a plus to do so by tearing it all out. I tore all of the lath n' plaster off the walls! It royally sucks, but I took out all that cellulose I blew in the exterior walls, and put in fiberglass and ran the new electric I installed 3 yrs previous and put it in a more appropriate place and what not.
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