My fear is that someone's going to advise a solution along the lines of "cut a surgical hole out the plaster and from there restructure the entire wall with your pinky and then masterfully skim over it and pretend nothing's happened." This is a bit beyond my skill, I think, so I might have to go for option 4 in this insistence. It’s easy to drill through the lath wall than the concrete one. But if you are putting heavier material than 25Ibs, you can put it anywhere on the wall as the horizontal boards can hold that much weight. Lots of people seem to advise this, but another miscellaneous man (on a forum this time) said that sometimes very old studs can crack when drilled into?ģ) Use butterfly/molly fixings to just go through the plaster/lath, close your eyes and hope that 6-8 of these across both brackets will be strong enough? A lath wall can hold almost 80-100Ibs of weight if you have successfully found the studs. A man in a shop told me this, but I haven't read it on any forums, so I'm not sure whether to trust this miscellaneous "man in a shop".Ģ) Find out where the vertical studs are using a cosmically strong magnet and just fix to this, as normal. Stud spacing in lath and plaster is similar to what’s found in new buildings. There are studs in traditional lath and plaster walls. Like homes built using drywall, the studs in lath and plaster walls are typically 1824 inches apart (4560 cm). Because of this, my magnet based stud finder sticks everywhere on the wall and my density based stud finder gets confused by the plaster goop on the back of the lath. Traditional lath and plaster walls do have studs. Use extra long screws and fix the brackets to this. I am attempting to mount a TV on the wall in my bedroom and it appears that I have a metal lath and plaster walls. Under that is the equivalant of modern sheetrock except it has preformed holes every 6 or so so the plaster could squish out and hold it tight to the wall. 1) Use an extra long drill bit to go right through to the brick, and then stick in an extra long raw plug that goes through and into the brick and sits facing out the plaster. Walls and Ceilings - Plaster walls but no lath - My house was built in 1949 and I have plaster walls over some kind of wire mesh.
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