Friday, February 26, 2010

Repairing major plaster cracks on a rock house (No wood behind the plaster)?

I have a 100+ year old rock home with plaster throughout. There was some foundation problems which caused major cracks in the plaster. I am hoping to fix this myself, but every website I look at talk about the wood behind the plaster. Being that the house is made from stone the only thing behind the plaster is rock so there is no screwing into the wall or anything of that sort.


This is the home: http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/siouxsie11/new/REMODEL.jpg


and this is the room that it is in. I realize you can't see any cracks, but I will get more later. You can see the rock that is behind the plaster though. http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d53/siouxsie11/new/untitled.jpgRepairing major plaster cracks on a rock house (No wood behind the plaster)?
the only reason the wood (lath) was there is that they needed something to put the plaster on,as the wall was just an empty void. And the spaces between them made a way for the plaste to grip. How was he plaster originally put on the wall ? Just directly to the stone ? if so ,,look at the second link and find the thred about plaster over concrete block, lots of info there.


Or you may want to attach a metal plaster lath to the wall, i think this would be my choice.











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