Many older homes may still have some walls and ceilings made of plaster and lath instead of the now standard drywall or wallboard.
How To Tell If You Have Plaster Walls Or Drywall. Plaster is harder and cooler than drywall. My house was built in '48 or '49 and it has plaster over gypsum sheet.
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If it is textured, and you want it smooth, you will need to sand down the walls, or have them replastered to cover the texture. If in doubt, and for the relative low cost and effort sizing is usually worth doing anyway. Otherwise, click cancel to return to our site.
Plastering walls in a renovation.
Drywall needs a sturdy substrate, so fasten loose plaster back to the wood lath strips behind it with plaster screws. Thu, sep 25, 2008 4:11 am. Patch plaster to get your walls back on track. Plaster is more brittle than drywall.
