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My husband and I are renovating an 1890 Victorian. After stripping two layers of wallpaper, we found that a few sections of the plaster had broken away from the keys behind the lath. The plaster is still mostly intact, the walls are smooth with only cracks (very few gaping holes). We’d like to avoid tearing them out and installing drywall if it is possible to secure the plaster back to the lath.
One suggestion we had was to drill a small pilot hole through the plaster into the lath and insert a screw and washer to pull the plaster back to the lath and plaster over the screw. Is this feasible or is there a better way to resecure the plaster to the lath?
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My husband and I are renovating an 1890 Victorian. After stripping two layers of wallpaper, we found that a few sections of the plaster had broken away from the keys behind the lath. The plaster is still mostly intact, the walls are smooth with only cracks (very few gaping holes). We'd like to avoid tearing them out and installing drywall if it is possible to secure the plaster back to the lath.
One suggestion we had was to drill a small pilot hole through the plaster into the lath and insert a screw and washer to pull the plaster back to the lath and plaster over the screw. Is this feasible or is there a better way to resecure the plaster to the lath?