Just moved into a very old house (1842) that needs alot of work. My question is with the ceiling in the front hallway. The shower has been leaking and the plaster is starting to pull away from the lath, is there any way to save this ceiling? I’m redoing the bathroom as we speak. The plaster molding is what I really would like to save.
Thanks Art
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Art, If you have access from above (through bath floor) vacumn out broken keys and inject regular yellow glue between plaster and wood lath and then very slowly and carefully push ceiling up with pieces of plywood and deadmen. this can work if you take your time and are very thorough.
The other option is to use screws with plaster washers and then skim the entire ceiling (you will probably have to do this either way). In my experience with plaster if the field of a ceiling has failed the edges and hence your plaster mouldings will often times still be sound. It may be possible to remove most of ceiling and leave mouldings at edge and reapply plaster to field. This would probably require an experienced plasterman for quality result. I really appreciate your willingness to save the plaster, most don't. Good Luck Jay