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lath-and-plaster

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  • While we could certainly fish new wires through our lath-and-plaster circa-1930 walls to rewire the house, we're saving up to have an electrician do it.

    Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • It had been rammed right through the lath-and-plaster surface.

    Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

  • Hollow doors and wallboard are less durable than solid-oak doors and lath-and-plaster walls.

    The Next Slum? 2008

  • I assume that even if they sealed it up, it would still be lath-and-plaster or wood.

    Pathfinder Orson Scott Card 2010

  • We struck a little path, and followed it, and presently came on a tiny temple in a clearing, a lath-and-plaster thing that looked as though it hadn't been visited in years.

    Fiancée 2010

  • Hollow doors and wallboard are less durable than solid-oak doors and lath-and-plaster walls.

    The Next Slum? 2008

  • At first, he resolved the problem by drawing and painting graffiti directly on to the fading, peeling wallpapered lath-and-plaster walls of the Gippsland ruins, later removing entire sections of them to exhibit in the gallery.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • While we could certainly fish new wires through our lath-and-plaster circa-1930 walls to rewire the house, we're saving up to have an electrician do it.

    Projects You Shouldn’t Try To DIY | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • At first, he resolved the problem by drawing and painting graffiti directly on to the fading, peeling wallpapered lath-and-plaster walls of the Gippsland ruins, later removing entire sections of them to exhibit in the gallery.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The lath-and-plaster wall between the kitchen and the bathroom probably needs to be tied to the outside wall and/or have a new joist put underneath.

    May 7th, 2009 2009

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