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> It’s impossible to mount even lightweight items such as picture frames onto the wall, because even the tiniest hole from nails or the like would crumble and e
by asdff 9mo ago
> It’s impossible to mount even lightweight items such as picture frames onto the wall, because even the tiniest hole from nails or the like would crumble and erode into dust.
The trick for this is to just find the stud. Same thing you'd have to do in drywall. For light stuff like photos, you can get away with putting a nail right into the lathe without having to find a stud. If you miss the lathe (you can tell) just move the nail up a half inch.
- aidos 9mo agoHa! If I even look at my lath and plaster walls the wrong way a little bit crumbles away.
- asdff 9mo agoThe trick is to have 100 years of landlord special paint holding it together
- throw_away92r 9mo agoAnd with the old lead paint lowering your mental capacity as the years go by, you care even less about small inconstencies
- asdff 9mo agoSafely contained behind several tenants worth of turnover or so I'm told. Walls are skip trowelled so inconsistency is just how they are.
- franktankbank 9mo agoWallpaper can be semi structural.
- kevin_thibedeau 9mo agoYou really need to predrill through the lath. Old lath is much harder than freshly milled wood. If you hit anywhere off the stud it can cause the lath to flex and break the backside keying off. This leads to delamination with enough accumulated damage.
- rootusrootus 9mo ago> Old lath is much harder than freshly milled wood That is my piece of advice for anybody who is buying a house at least a hundred years old. Old lath is like iron, and you can do more damage than you expect if you just try to put a screw into it without pre-drilling.