Hi Lenny, Often they screw several screws into the old plaster outside of where the patch is to be cut away to hold it securely through any lath and to help hold the lath firm so you can cut it away before installing the patch. then, like you say, mud right over the lot.
In my experience and I am not a professional plasterer like your dad, the biggest trouble is keeping the original work from becoming damaged further by your work. It gets pretty brittle after all those years. Dale Leavens, Cochrane Ontario Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype DaleLeavens Come and meet Aurora, Nakita and Nanook at our polar bear habitat. ----- Original Message ----- From: Lenny McHugh To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 1:33 PM Subject: Re: [BlindHandyMan] On a more serious note -with older homes Hi Lee, Well considering that my home was built in 1880 and has the horse hair plaster, I can absolutely say the answer is yes. Actually we had quite a few repairs the first about 33 years ago when we purchased the home. At that time my late father-in-law was a professional plasterer and stone mason. This home has fire brick in all of the walls and he used special plaster formulas for these patches. He had a file box of cement and plaster recipes. Then later we had to patch a few with sheetrock. since the actual plaster was not quite 1/4" thicker than the sheet rock we first used a framing square to mark the area around the area to be repaired. Then we carefully cut out the area making a relatively square hole. Then we fitted in the sheet rock. We followed up with a skim coat of spackling compound. We kept applying skim coats until the void was filled. What is interesting that in my home there is no lath boards on the walls. The plaster is just stuck to the brick and framing lumber. Also on the sheet rock patch we wherever possible added the large washer and screw on the old plaster fairly close to the patch. then when we spackled it we feathered over the large washer and screw.Lenny http://www.geocities.com/lenny_mchugh/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lee A. Stone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Blind Handyman" <[email protected]> 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 To listen to the show archives go to link http://acbradio.org/handyman.html or ftp://ftp.acbradio.org/acbradio-archives/handyman/ The Pod Cast address for the Blind Handy Man Show is. http://www.acbradio.org/news/xml/podcast.php?pgm=saturday Visit The Blind Handy Man Files Page To Review Contributions From Various List Members At The Following address: http://www.jaws-users.com/handyman/ Visit the archives page at the following address http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ If you would like to join the Blind Computing list, then visit the following address for more information: http://jaws-users.com/mailman/listinfo/blind-computing_jaws-users.com For a complete list of email commands pertaining to the Blind Handy Man list just send a blank message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo! Groups Links [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
