Q Am I right that when sections of plaster break away from the lath, an accepted repair technique is to roughly fill in those gaps with drywall and then drywall over the whole wall or ceiling? — M.H., ...

It isn’t the first time in my renovation career that a homeowner is disgruntled with a textured or stipple ceiling. In the older suburbs, many houses are also plagued with unsightly cracks in the ...

Question: I have two questions. My first question has to do with the removal of stipple from the living and dining room ceiling. The house was built in 1950, and the walls and ceiling were drywalled ...

When Clare Gee started renovation work on the century-old Glebe house she bought with her husband, Andrew, in 2005, she knew she was facing a huge job. The house had been turned into a bed and ...

I’m a landlord. The building -- on Detroit Avenue -- is 100 years old. I called the tenant and apologized. In old buildings, plaster -- a limestone-and-sandstone paste -- is squished between wood lath ...