Drywall is the standard wall covering in North America, but plaster is making a comeback. Compare the best uses for plaster ...

The plaster has enough structural integrity to hold their weight. Be cautious about trying to drive a nail into a piece of wood lath. If a nail strikes a piece of lath under the plaster there is a ...

In most homes, it completely surrounds us side to side and overhead. We take for granted the wonderful finish, texture and ...

Lath comes in many forms and has changed over the millennia. In ancient construction, plaster went directly onto masonry or other walls. As solid wall construction gave way to wood frame ...

CC-BY-SA-4.0 Before drywall existed, walls were constructed with a time-consuming process referred to as lath and plaster. This usually involved nailing up many thin strips of wood to the wooden ...

In these homes, Hanchey embraces the old-school, wood lath, two-coat plaster system. This process involves tearing down existing material to the wood lath, and putting up new lath made of diamond ...

Plaster is placed on top of wood strips called lath. John Romans, president of John Romans Construction in Upper Arlington, Ohio, notes that when cracks appear at a door opening, wrapped doorway ...

VanGorder takes wood lath, wood that was originally used behind plaster in old buildings, creating wood slats, similar to a lattice board, and turns these pieces of wood into beautiful wall art.