lath and plaster

How To Use lath and plaster In A Sentence

• The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work. The Life of Thomas Telford
• Cut lath and plaster with a reciprocating saw fitted with a coarse, wood-cutting blade.
• The construction was lath and plaster, and chips of wood and chunks of plaster flew from the wall and lay strewn about the floor, the white dust settling in the cracks of the floorboards and the creases of his forehead. The Hole in the Wall « A Fly in Amber
• The wall insulation is subsequently covered with lath and plaster.
• The roof of a one-time fine farmstead is falling in, a gable end collapsed, lath and plaster rotting - romantic?
• If you are nailing over a lath and plaster ceiling, longer nails may be needed.
• Pondicherry is about four leagues in extent; the houses are built with brick, but the Indians use only wood, in the manner which we call lath and plaster. Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales
• In one corner of the room he pried up the tiles of the flooring for the space of a square foot, and cut away the planking underneath, leaving nothing but some thin lath and plaster between them and the room below. Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons
• All that tearing down Don had been doing, ripping out cabinets, extra studs, lath and plaster, the house was writhing with the pain of it like having its teeth pulled, and now this, whatever he was doing, this new sound, the house was in _pain_. Homebody
• The repair procedures differ depending on whether it is an older wall with lath and plaster, or a newer wall using gypsum wallboard (drywall).