We had a small leak that led to a huge repair job, the former owner put in a bathroom on the second floor and he didn't know what he was doing.
Well, we now have holes in walls and ceilings in three rooms. Our house is from 1931 so we have lath and plaster walls, the ceilings are some type of fiber board with a thin layer of plaster on them. Dh and I would like to do the repair ourselves since we just spent our Christmas and birthday present money for many years on the plumbing work. We mostly do our own repair work if we can. We haven't worked with plaster before.
We have asked 3 people and gotten three answers. Two involved using plaster board (sheet rock) to repair them the third a method of plaster work where you tack the screen used for stucco on top of the lath left around the edges and plaster over that. The walls are 3/4" thick when you include the lath and plaster, the ceiling 1". Here is a photo.
P.S. If you want to vote on the new color the samples are on the wall.
