Yeah, 1/4" on lath is ridiculous. Even with horsehair that’ll never work.
My friend Pedro the Cruel screws everything down flat with boards and/or washers, drills rows of holes into the lath, forces some kind of fancy glue through the plaster and into the lathing (essentially replacing the broken keys with glue joints) and then pulls off the boards/washers and spackles over the holes and cracks. It’s some kind of commercial system; it seems to work very well.
I tear everything down to the lath and build it back up old-school (in my house) or with modern drywall (in other people’s houses). Yeah, it is nasty work, but very rewarding to see a nice smooth wall where there used to be a cracked, bulging eyesore.
I’ve seen that system, seems a little over the top I guess. Half the time there’s so much crap between the unkeyed plaster and the lath that you can’t get it to sit flat anyway. When the walls are beyond saving I hire a contractor to gut it to the studs and sheetrock, no need for my subtle skills there. I also do the salvaging and reproducing of woodwork detail that the contractors seem to either can’t or won’t do. I let them do the 3 piece baseboard around a bay window and it was hash.
This crown assembly to match the existing woodlwork is a fascia, backing strips to bulk it up, crown, bottom plate and half round on that plate. And the inside joints are coped not mitered. Even the case is 3 pieces.
I’m too cheap! (Only when I was growing up, it was called being Scotch, and it was a compliment.)
I do use the disposable tyvek suits for asbestos cleanup or poison ivy control. My daughter is very allergic so I don’t want to bring any urushiol into the house or laundry.
Thanks! I started on hats, doing some crochet before that (had a gig finishing winter hats for a business casual catalog brand as a teen, paid per piece). I love knitting in the round! I’ve done socks and am glove curious, but intimidated by all those fingers. I also am never excited to have to do basically the exact same thing twice. Gotta keep the spice flowing and all.
Now would be a good time to dust off my Vogue knitting book and give it a try, since we are snowed in for the foreseeable future. Barely made it to get supplies today for the first time since last year. Intense.
Here’s the hat I made for my dad. It’s got 4 different yarns worked in, and though it may appear ridiculous to the casual observer; it is perfect for him. The man rocks a poof ball.
Yeah, it is nasty work, but very rewarding to see a nice smooth wall where there used to be a cracked, bulging eyesore.
