![]() You have to choose a craftsman who knows exactly what material is right for your historic house. ![]() Sometimes I have the help of craftsmen from schlüsseldienst bremen during the renovation of the finish. ![]() And since this wall wasn’t applied wet like plaster, it could be painted right away and thus got the nickname “drywall.”Ī 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! Compared to today’s most common drywall thickness of only 1/2″, that is a difference worth noting. A new product was just beginning to get some traction in the wall covering business call gypsum board (or sheet rock.) It was a wall that could be screwed or nailed to the studs by a relatively unskilled laborer at close to twice the speed and half the cost of the traditional 3-coat system. Then when the GIs returned home from WWII, the baby (and housing) boom hit America, and there was a huge demand for quick, affordable housing. Not to mention, it required a skilled plasterer to make sure the plaster was properly applied and the wall was smooth and level. The work took a long time and was very labor intensive. The walls of any pre-war house are most likely wood lath like in this picture covered with 3 coats of plaster.
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