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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I assume that even if they sealed it up, it would still be lath-and-plaster or wood. ❋ Orson Scott Card (2010)
Hollow doors and wallboard are less durable than solid-oak doors and lath-and-plaster walls. ❋ Unknown (2008)
It had been rammed right through the lath-and-plaster surface. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2010)
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. ❋ 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. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Part of this need was due to the house in which my family lived - an ancient lath-and-plaster construction my parents obtained when the State of Ohio declared eminent domain over a portion of land in Stark County, and then ripped an interstate through it, a space where houses once stood. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Nobody seems to have connected the report with him, though the gun, being fired in a confined space, must have sounded loud, and there were several people in the billiard-room, separated from him only by a lath-and-plaster partition. ❋ Herbert George (2006)
Thus was ended the huge cost of lath-and-plaster crews that used to finish the insides of buildings. ❋ Saabira Chaudhuri (2006)
But the huts of these swarming poor have crawled up close to its gates, — the superb walls of hewn stone stop all of a sudden with a lath-and-plaster hitch; and capitals, and hewn stones for columns, still lying about on the deserted terrace, may lie there for ages to come, probably, and never take their places by the side of their brethren in yonder tall bankrupt galleries. ❋ Unknown (2004)
And the building of the finest mansion never gave half so much satisfaction as did that of this flimsy little wooden house, with its thin lath-and-plaster walls. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The first sunlight streams in from the east bank of windows onto a floor in which the lath-and-plaster walls have been removed and what remains is the bones of these rooms, framed in new honey-colored two-by-fours and a few old, gray beams and headers. ❋ Walter, Jess, 1969- (2003)
It came over him one morning on waking that he could not go on in the old one for another day, so cramped was he, so tortured by its lath-and-plaster thinness. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Please don't leave me trapped here, with timbers for a skeleton and lath-and-plaster skin. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1998)
Someone had replaced the lath-and-plaster walls with two-by-four studs and glued the cabinets directly to them, in addition to nailing and screwing them. ❋ Card, Orson Scott (1998)
A lath-and-plaster partition had been run across the passage six feet from the end, with a door cunningly concealed in it. ❋ Unknown (1981)
