Plaster Wall For The Attic

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.

Plaster wall for the attic. Compared to today s most common drywall. Use r 30 insulation for the ceiling and r 13 for the walls. Typically plaster ceiling cracks have two causes. If you own an old house with plaster and lath walls you may have discovered how utterly useless a stud finder can be.

And while loosely guiding the bit with one hand apply even pressure with the other holding the drill while running it. It actually offers many of the same benefits that using drywall does. It needs a certain amount of loft to work properly. Don t mash or compress the insulation into the space.

Drywall often called gypsum wallboard gyp board or plasterboard is made of a crumbly fire resistant substance called gypsum. Blowing in attic cellulose is conceivably a do it yourself job. If building a knee wall for storage like karl did with this project make sure to insulate that area as well. 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.

It is wrapped in a thick paper coating and besides being durable is easily cut trimmed and repaired. 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. 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.

Protect the wall with a thin piece of cardboard etc. Veneer plaster comes really close to being as convenient as traditional drywall. It can be used to cover conventional bare stud walls or damaged lath and plaster wads. House settling and temperature or moisture fluctuations in an attic.

With boric acid added for fire resistance shredded recycled telephone books tax forms and newspapers all contribute to making safe cellulose insulation blown in cellulose is injected into the wall cavities by a series of holes drilled into either the inside or outside of the walls. 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.