Q: Just off the side door in my house are the stairs that go down to the basement. The ceiling overhead is sloped where the underside of the stairs to the upstairs go. The house was built almost a ...

A month later after the plastering was done, everything on Mr Joseph Mugisha’s walls in the house started falling down. “I think the contractor just didn’t put enough cement in the sand because it is ...

Q Am I right that when sections of plaster break away from the lath, an accepted repair technique is to roughly fill in those gaps with drywall and then drywall over the whole wall or ceiling? — M.H., ...

Plastering is the process of covering rough walls and uneven surfaces in the construction of houses and other structures with a plastic material called plaster. This is a mixture of lime or cement ...

It is a living, breathing, vindictive building material.Owners of older homes know what I'm talking about. Your house is clean. For once, no urgent household repairs cry for attention. No toilets are ...

Rory Brennan of Preservation Plastering of Brattleboro and Richard Barrow of John Canning & Co., a Connecticut historic preservation firm, discussed the virtues and challenges of the historic plaster ...

Read Part 1, Part 3 and Part 4 of this story. I am in the eternal process of renovating my apartment. It’s in an 1899 brick row house in Troy, and looks very similar to many of the later row houses ...