Yes, The original half of this house is all plaster and lath. some of it I have replaced, some adapted and patched and of course there are transitions between the old plaster and the new construction. If the underlying lath is sound it isn't too bad but cutting away the old plaster to make a nice clean edge for the patch can be a challenge, some of it is quite cementacious so very hard and brittle wanting to send cracks radiating out into the area you are wanting to preserve.
There are probably as many ways of patching as there are people patching and the various circumstances needing patching, did you have something particular in mind? Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lee A. Stone To: Blind Handyman Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 11:39 AM Subject: [BlindHandyMan] On a more serious note -with older homes Have you ever had to match repair work of old polaster walls with just using what we now call wall board or sheet rock ? Lee -- I. Any body suspended in space will remain in space until made aware of its situation. Daffy Duck steps off a cliff, expecting further pastureland. He loiters in midair, soliloquizing flippantly, until he chances to look down. At this point, the familiar principle of 32 feet per second per second takes over. II. Any body in motion will tend to remain in motion until solid matter intervenes suddenly. Whether shot from a cannon or in hot pursuit on foot, cartoon characters are so absolute in their momentum that only a telephone pole or an outsize boulder retards their forward motion absolutely. Sir Isaac Newton called this sudden termination of motion the stooge's surcease. III. Any body passing through solid matter will leave a perforation conforming to its perimeter. Also called the silhouette of passage, this phenomenon is the speciality of victims of directed-pressure explosions and of reckless cowards who are so eager to escape that they exit directly through the wall of a house, leaving a cookie-cutout-perfect hole. The threat of skunks or matrimony often catalyzes this reaction. -- Esquire, "O'Donnell's Laws of Cartoon Motion", June 1980 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
