Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Need to watch out for asbestos used to reinforce fibrous plaster too [and asbestos fibre artex finishes on old ceilings... sometimes easier to leave up and underboard!]
Lathe and plaster ceilings
- Thread starter uphillstruggler
- Start date
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Spokesmann
Keeping the Carlton and Sun names alive...
- Location
- Plymouth, Devon
Most of the ceilings in my house are lathe and plaster, we bought another house in 2010 and have been gradually restoring it, I took down two of these types of ceiling and it is utterly filthy work. Part of the original ceiling had been boarded over with plaster board just to make it more interesting and hard to remove. A truly mucky job - the dust gets everywhere!
As for staying up the thick stodgy lime mortar/plaster is bound together in some case with horse hair, it is then layered on quite thickly forcing between the narrow wooden lathes, the material sort of squelches behind the wooden strips and once dry holds the whole lot up! They tend to be quite thick for this reason typically 2-2.5".
As for staying up the thick stodgy lime mortar/plaster is bound together in some case with horse hair, it is then layered on quite thickly forcing between the narrow wooden lathes, the material sort of squelches behind the wooden strips and once dry holds the whole lot up! They tend to be quite thick for this reason typically 2-2.5".
smokeysmoo
Legendary Member
- Location
- Bolton, not very far from Nob End
That might explain my lack of pace on the bike after all these years!
