My house is around 60 years old and has plaster walls and ceilings. Many seams in the plaster are visible. The seams are sunken in. I was hoping to be able to skim a coat of compound…

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Please Help!! I have an old house with plaster walls. The kitchen wall which is on the back of the house keeps repeatedly cracking and peeling. It goes down to a gray layer of the…

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we removed old wallpaper which peeled off easy but the plaster walls underneath appear to have been texturized .What do I do to smooth them out so that I can paint them. The area involved is a large…

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…plaster damage (missing or coming down). What is your recommendation for repairing this damage? We are going to keep the plaster walls and paint them. Do I remove the lathe and repair or just apply a plaster repair product on the existing lathe? Thank you…

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I have purchased an older home with plaster walls and ceilings. There are various cracks and raised wrinkles. How do I repair these so that I can paint the walls and ceilings? Thanks. Valaina@aol.com

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I have heard from a friend about a new product for repairing cracked plaster walls. The product has a name like "Nu Wall" or "New Wall". Has anyone heard of it, and do you know who the manufacturer is? Thanks.

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Hello. I was on the web looking for plaster washers when I came upon your question you posed a year ago about stripping paint off the walls before repair. I have just taken 7 layers of paint off my bathroom wall.

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We pulled down old wallpaper and some of the finish plaster coat has come down also. We noticed too that the outside walls had mold. (some areas black and others have like a soft white flaky material). Can I use regular joint compund to put up a skin coat to even out the walls?

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Have a bedroom wall with extensive water damage on the plaster. How do I go about repairing it and then applying wallpaper to it?

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WE JUST BOUGHT AN OLD HOUSE BUILT IN 1906. THERE ARE SEVERAL SECTIONS OF LOOSE, CRACKED PLASTER ON THE WALLS. WE ARE LOOKING FOR A SPECIAL WASHER CALLED A PLASTER WASHER WE SAW IN A THIS OLD HOUSE REPAIR MANUAL. IF YOU CAN SEND A NAME OF A SUPPLIER THAT MAY SELL THEM IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED.

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