Wall Repairs

Stone veneer is a building material designed to replicate natural stone. It is comprised of a lightweight concrete, and is cast in a mold that mimics the features of natural stone. Stone veneer is...

Old-fashioned plaster walls involved spreading wet plaster over strips of wood lath. Modern drywall is pressed chalk covered in paper and screwed directly to the wall studs. Combining plaster and...

These are instructions for fixing a large area of missing plaster on a Victorian era lath and plaster wall where the lath is composed of horizontal slats of rough sawn wood.

Homes built during the Victorian era often have their original lath and plaster walls still intact. In a lath and plaster wall, ruler sized slats of rough sawn wood were nailed up horizontally...

People often patch stucco walls for a variety of reasons. The most common being damage to the wall, and the removal of a door or window. Whatever the reason for patching a stucco wall there are...

Plaster is a building material made of gypsum, limestone, sand and water. It is installed over wooden strips, called a lath, or lathe. Until the 1950s it was the most common material used to...

Plaster and lath was the method craftsmen used in the early 1900s and before that to construct interior walls. Plaster was mixed by hand and spread over the lath--wooden oak slats nailed close...

Today, most walls and ceilings are made with drywall. It's easy and quick to install, it's affordable, and it lasts for a long time without a lot of maintenance. This hasn't always been the case...

Holes in plaster walls up to about eight inches can be repaired with patching plaster and metal lath. Larger holes can be repaired just as well with the use of gypsum lath.

Small holes in plaster, nails or small cracks, can be filled with spackling compound and then sanded. Make sure you clean out the hole and widen it slightly so the spackle adheres. Repairing...

There are many old homes that still have their original plaster walls. Repairing holes in these walls is a little more involved than repairing a drywall. However the average person can repair...