Plaster Wall For The Attic

You don t need to be quite as skilled to properly build walls using veneer plaster as you would need to be when hanging drywall.

Plaster wall for the attic.

And since this wall wasn t applied wet like plaster it could be painted right away and thus got the nickname drywall a traditional 3 coat plaster is typically 7 8 thick and when you add in the 1 4 wood lath that supports the plaster wall you have a wall that is more than 1 thick. If drilling up through the ceiling expect to pass through a thin coat of plaster and 5 8 of sheet rock and 1 2 inch 1 3 cm of strapping to which the sheet rock is secured. If building a knee wall for storage like karl did with this project make sure to insulate that area as well. Typically plaster ceiling cracks have two causes.

We are planning to spray foam the attic but curious if when we remove all plaster walls upstairs we should insulate the exterior cavity add vapor barrier then drywall from inside of house. Protect the wall with a thin piece of cardboard etc. It needs a certain amount of loft to work properly. Drywall often called gypsum wallboard gyp board or plasterboard is made of a crumbly fire resistant substance called gypsum.

It can be used to cover conventional bare stud walls or damaged lath and plaster wads. We have plaster walls everywhere but the upstairs is in total disrepair and needs to be completely gutted after years of neglect windows that leaked etc. If you own an old house with plaster and lath walls you may have discovered how utterly useless a stud finder can be. Compared to today s most common drywall.

Blowing in attic cellulose is conceivably a do it yourself job. Veneer plaster comes really close to being as convenient as traditional drywall. It is wrapped in a thick paper coating and besides being durable is easily cut trimmed and repaired. Use r 30 insulation for the ceiling and r 13 for the walls.

Since plaster is extremely rigid the slightest movement can cause a gap. And while loosely guiding the bit with one hand apply even pressure with the other holding the drill while running it. Staple insulation between the wall studs and ceiling joists image a. Most smaller items can be hung pretty securely anywhere on the wall by screwing into the wood lath but for heavy things that weight more than 10 15 lbs like large mirrors and tvs you ll need to learn how to find studs in a plaster wall.

House settling and temperature or moisture fluctuations in an attic. It actually offers many of the same benefits that using drywall does.