![]() This all assumes you know how to patch P&L. It's a whole extra order of magnitude, really. If I ripped out all the plaster & sheetrocked, in every ceiling or wall he needed to fish wires through? A whole lot of 2-3 day jobs would have been month-long jobs. In fact, that's how I learned what I know about electrical - used to do a lot of plaster-repair work for an electrician. It's definitely do-able, we do it all the time, here - we have a lot of plaster & lathe in NYC. ![]() ![]() Make the holes you need, fish the wires, patch. If it's in good shape, it's often a lot easier & just as well to leave it. I also vote for "tough call to make over the internet". And if you did have the ceiling opened up, you could use the opportunity to prewire for voice/data if this is a living area. But since you are installing recessed lighting, if you are using proper mounting boxes, it just makes sense to open everything up to give yourself ease of access to install the boxes and run wire properly and to code. If it were me, and I peered up into the ceiling cavity and didn't see any insulation up there.that would settle things and I would tear it all down and insulate the ceiling properly and then drywall it. At least if you start from scratch, you can shim out where you need to address any settling in the floor joists. Not to mention that any imperfections in the L&P cieling might not be apparent now, but when you drywall over it, you will get the imperfections in your boarding. In my opinion, drywalling over it is a terrible and lazy way to do the job it just complicates everything down the line in case you have to repair or install anything later on. As soon as I see L&P my desire is to bash it all to hell I can't stand the stuff. Lathe is nothing special, most home-improvement stores will have it.Hmm, it's a tough call. I will hire out a few big plaster projects next year to re-do a couple full walls. I've fixed some of the larger cracks in my house and I'm no professional, they look ok but you can still see that there was something there. ![]() Big cracks could mean structure issues, but in most cases it's just from the home shifting over the decades, especially in colder climates. Many people just leave the tiny cracks as long as they don't grow, myself included. You can put drywall over plaster, but expect that it will crack eventually because plaster walls are not perfectly flat and the drywall doesn't bend well. But it's used in pretty much all new homes because it's still cheap, and still requires pretty much no skill to installĪlso removing plaster to replace with drywall is a HUGE project, and incredibly messy, not to mention you'll have a really tough time making standard sheets of drywall fit where you think they should, and you'll be left with ugly gaps between your floor and your wall, something pretty much every amateur flipper forgets when they start ripping into old houses. Modern drywall stems from the huge demand after WWII, a cheap and easy to install alternative to plaster was needed that could be managed by minimally skilled people at a low labor cost. ![]() Plaster is a far superior wall covering, and a big part of historical charm in my opinion, even the cracks that inevitably form over time. ![]()
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