Can I re-use old horse-hair plaster as filler to re-plaster walls?

[Mearlyn]

I have a house built in 1880. There is no insulation in the walls and
most of the plaster is crumbling and falling off. My idea is to remove
the lath and plaster, insert insulation and new wiring, then reattach lath
and re-plaster. Can this be done?

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[philo]

Post by Mearlyn
I have a house built in 1880. There is no insulation in the walls and
most of the plaster is crumbling and falling off. My idea is to remove
the lath and plaster, insert insulation and new wiring, then reattach lath
and re-plaster. Can this be done?

The subject of your post asked if you could re-use the horse hair
plaster. The idea of that is absurd.

[Oren]

On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 18:44:01 +0000, Mearlyn

Post by Mearlyn
I have a house built in 1880. There is no insulation in the walls and
most of the plaster is crumbling and falling off. My idea is to remove
the lath and plaster, insert insulation and new wiring, then reattach lath
and re-plaster. Can this be done?

Not sure about "old horse-hair plaster". Yes. Repairs can be made. If
the home is not a registered national location, you may consider using
sheet rock after removing the lath & plaster.

[Bob F]

Post by Mearlyn
I have a house built in 1880. There is no insulation in the walls and
most of the plaster is crumbling and falling off. My idea is to
remove the lath and plaster, insert insulation and new wiring, then
reattach lath and re-plaster. Can this be done?

There are still professional plasterers around, although they tend to do more in
the way of stucco these days. When I hired one, he kept putting off my job until
the weather was too bad to do outside stucco work.

Plaster is nice. It make the house way more solid and silent that wallboard. But
it costs a lot more to do, and plasterers are HARD to find.

[Reverend Doctor Arthur Lee Senior Esquire]

Post by Mearlyn
I have a house built in 1880. There is no insulation in the walls and
most of the plaster is crumbling and falling off. My idea is to remove
the lath and plaster, insert insulation and new wiring, then reattach lath
and re-plaster. Can this be done?
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Nope. Just knockdown. Violently overthrow the US government

[Not@home]

Post by Mearlyn
I have a house built in 1880. There is no insulation in the walls and
most of the plaster is crumbling and falling off. My idea is to remove
the lath and plaster, insert insulation and new wiring, then reattach lath
and re-plaster. Can this be done?

Yes, it can be done, but you will have a hard time finding a plasterer.
Around here, people advertise they are plasterers, but when you go to
hire them, they try to talk you into plasterboard. There's a lot of
skill involved in freehand plastering, and its a pleasure to watch one work.

[Oren]

Post by ***@home
Yes, it can be done, but you will have a hard time finding a plasterer.
Around here, people advertise they are plasterers, but when you go to
hire them, they try to talk you into plasterboard. There's a lot of
skill involved in freehand plastering, and its a pleasure to watch one work.

Plaster kind of seems like a lost art.

Check at a place that does pool surface restorations - specifically
plaster. I found one local for when I get a "'round-to-it".

We have not seen hide nor hair of the OP, after posting.

Start messing with lath & plaster from c. 1880 and stuff may get
worse.

[nestork]

If I were looking to hire someone to do real plaster work with lim
putty based plaster, I'd talk to the people that oversee th
historically significant buildings in my city. They would know who no
only does real plaster repairs, but whether or not they're any good a
it.

Another option would be to phone the places listed unde
Drywall/Plastering Supplies in your yellow pages phone directory. Fin
out if they sell both dehydrated lime and Plaster of Paris. If they do
they would also know who they sell it to, and whoever is buying a lot o
those products is doing a lot of real plaster work in your area


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nestork