First-Class Upgrades
By Jefferson Kolle, for This Old House magazine, January/February 2001
Rory Brennan demonstrates a different plaster repair method from Tom Silva’s, one that reunites the sagging and cracked 135-year-old plaster with its lath-strip supports. By affixing this loose ceiling with an acrylic adhesive that he injects through 3/16-inch holes throughout the damaged area, Brennan can make repairs without adding permanent hardware to the plaster surface. He draws the plaster back to the lath using screws fitted with protective plastic washers. Once the plaster glue has set, he removes the screws and washers, and fills all the holes with a rapid-setting plaster mixture, smoothing away all the blemishes.
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