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   Shep | Feb 23, 2005 05:17am | #1

   That'll work fine, although I'll sometimes use Gypsolite for plaster repairs ( as the brown coat ), and then use one of the setting type compounds for the top coat.

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   dinothecarpenter | Feb 23, 2005 05:40am | #2

   Hello Shep.

   Next time try a ball of newspapers.(wet) and plaster of paris.

   Then fibergllas tape and Joint compound. or D-mix.

    

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   Shep | Feb 23, 2005 05:56am | #4

   Done that, too ( except for the D-mix, thats next)

   Its kinda a matter of what I have around, and how much running around I want to do to pick up materials

   You know what the roads can be like around here

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   dinothecarpenter | Feb 23, 2005 06:18am | #5

   stop over in  53 National road. Edison. (our new home.)

   Now we have the room to shoot some videos and the first EZone School for the EZ tricks of the trade.

   Next week. And you can be my star. (I need someone who speaks the native ....English.)

    

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   calvin | Feb 23, 2005 05:41am | #3

   I make the first coat Durabond regular.  Sets harder  Bonds well to both the surface of and innerds of, plaster wall.  On occasion will use Plaster Weld b/4 taping and mudding.

   Remodeling Contractor just outside the Glass City.

   Quittin' Time

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   DonCanDo | Feb 24, 2005 01:54am | #6

   I have had good luck with EasySand (I use the fastest setting stuff).  It sticks to plaster or drywalland it doesn't shrink.  Although it's not nearly as easy to sand as pre-mixed joint compound, if you happen to apply too much, it can be sanded.

   -Don

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   ripmeister | Feb 24, 2005 07:25pm | #7

   I would add to the priors to make sure you use some sort of backer if you remove or heavily damage the lath.  I'm not sure about newspapers.  One thing I did recently with some spots where I removed old boxes was to get some of the gutter guard material at the big box.  It serves as a metal lath.  What I liked about it was I could cut it in about any shape and then bend it in to place  with a friction fit against the existing lath.  Then I laid in a heavy coat of hot mud pushing it through the screening to create keys. 

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   PenobscotMan | Feb 25, 2005 12:21am | #8

   A variation of this is to tie the lath (or hardware cloth) to a stick pressed tightly against the plaster.  When the patch sets, you can cut the string.

   No one has stated the obvious -- that the technique used depends largely on the size of the hole.  After having patched numerous holes in our century old house, I've concluded that it's as easy to patch a big hole as a small one, so sometimes enlarging the hole, screwing on strapping backers, etc. is no more work in the long run than stuffing in newspaper, etc.

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   ripmeister | Feb 25, 2005 05:06pm | #9

   I concur.