Q: We recently purchased a 1926 colonial house with mostly horsehair plaster walls. This is my first experience with plaster walls, and I’m afraid they are going to crumble when I hang artwork ...

The plaster in your house, because of its age, is probably the older "horsehair" type material. It was applied, usually in two or three coats, over wood lath (strips of wood approximately 1/4 inch ...

You may even find hair in plaster, typically horse hair, which until the 1920s was often used to bind the mix together. Underneath your plaster walls, you’ll find lath nailed to the studs.

Plastering has been around for ages. The Egyptians plastered their houses and tombs with a lime-gypsum material similar to modern plaster. The Greeks and Romans also recognized the sanitary value o… ...

Q. In the 1840 section of our house, we thought the staircase walls might be the old horsehair plaster because the wall is quite wavy. I discovered (the wrong way) that there was an air-pocket ...

Traditional plaster — a simple mixture of lime, sand, horsehair and water — has existed for at least 14,000 years. Plaster ..

Q: We live in an older home — say, built around 1905 — that has the old horsehair plaster on the walls and ceiling. We would like to do over the ceilings and paint the walls.

Q: We recently bought a 1926 colonial in Melrose with mostly horsehair plaster walls. This is my first experience with plaster walls, and I'm afraid they are going to crumble when I hang artwork ...

Horsehair plaster may cause needless asbestos concerns. Staff Writer. ... The walls are covered with what looks like the hair that our dog sheds when she begins shedding her winter coat.

Q: My old 1920s house has horsehair plaster. I would like to paint it, but my wife says she does not want to paint over the paper, which is about 10 years old. How to start and finish? A: The ...

Q: We recently purchased a 1926 colonial in Melrose with mostly horsehair plaster walls. This is my first experience with plaster walls, and I'm afraid they are going to crumble when I hang artwork, ...