Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Alex Lepe Credit: Alex Lepe If you want to make changes to your home — whether you rent or own — then it’s crucial that ...

Lath-and-plaster walls are common in older houses (built late 18th Century until the early 1950’s, when drywall became standard). Whether you want to hang a picture, mirror or kitchen cabinet, ...

Hanging anything onto a plaster wall is a bit of a challenge. Depth finders help locate studs behind the plaster, but drilling through plaster and lathe into a stud is often problematic. There are a ...

I found its wood-stud-finding abilities accurate in both my drywall and plaster test homes, and test nails proved the accuracy of its readings. Although that was the extent of its abilities in the ...

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Q Is there a surefire way of finding a stud in a lath and plaster wall? My stud-finder reacts to the whole wall. You'd think it was one solid stud! I'm tired of making holes and then having to patch ...

Houses around Reading will have many sorts of walls from plastered brick and mortar to stud walling with lath and plaster or plasterboard. Putting fixings into some walls presents DIYers with an ...