This looks unsightly in an old house, and the drywall that replaces the plaster will also look different ... topped by thin layers of skim coated plaster to blend the repair into the rest of the ...

If you have an old house with holes in the plaster ... apply your final skim coat. For more on plaster, consider: Patching Plaster Walls How To: Rebuild a Wall with Three-Coat Plaster Blueboard ...

Dear James: I have an old house with plaster walls and many cracks that need to be repaired. How can I fix these so they stay fixed and are invisible? — Julianne T. Dear Julianne: Many older ...

There are two kinds of cracks in old lath and plaster walls. Both can be repaired, but one is a much more serious problem. By Ronda Kaysen Q: Our Gramercy co-op was built in 1929. The thick ...

In the 1840 section of our house, we thought the staircase walls might be the old horsehair ... to use a foam or a plaster or something entirely different to “repair” the inner surface.

Here is how professional decorators fix cracks in plaster walls, with instructions so simple even the most amateur home DIYer could manage it. Like repairing a plaster ceiling, this DIY project ...

“I have plaster walls ... first house in East Baltimore. So he e-mailed back. “I used to have some of the plaster washers you heard about. I got them at least 15 years ago from the Old House ...