First house my husband and I bought had orange peel textured spray in the laundry room. It started to bubble up due to humidity from the badly vented dryer. Fixed that issue but in trying to then fix the orange peel damage, we scraped off the loose compound and found a layer of wallpaper. No good adhesion. Under the wallpaper was 2 more layers of wallpaper, one a shiny metallic 70s vinyl, then 3 layers of paint, on a plaster wall. Ended up having to demo the whole room, basically, and remove the lathe and plaster with drywall. House archeology at its finest.
Reminds me of where I grew up sort of, the trend through the 70s to 90s was covering up the hardwood floors with carpet that gets nasty as frick in a couple years, and sometime in the early 00s the wood floor made a comeback. Nice little easy property booster for lots of people when they ripped the carpet up and refinished a hardwood floor for the low.
When I was looking at some real old houses, one of them had a hidden area behind the wall that was used to apparently store liqueur during prohibition.
First house my husband and I bought had orange peel textured spray in the laundry room. It started to bubble up due to humidity from the badly vented dryer. Fixed that issue but in trying to then fix the orange peel damage, we scraped off the loose compound and found a layer of wallpaper. No good adhesion. Under the wallpaper was 2 more layers of wallpaper, one a shiny metallic 70s vinyl, then 3 layers of paint, on a plaster wall. Ended up having to demo the whole room, basically, and remove the lathe and plaster with drywall. House archeology at its finest.
a lathe in your laundry room?
you turning some bowls while washing clothes?
Lath
Yeah lath, not lathe. Autocorrect too powerful
Sounds like my house, I had to strip entire place to studs when I bought it
At least you knew what was in the walls. Gift and a curse.
Would have loved to do that in my house so I could have properly air sealed and insulated it.
> what’s in walls
piss jug
>my husband
Reminds me of where I grew up sort of, the trend through the 70s to 90s was covering up the hardwood floors with carpet that gets nasty as frick in a couple years, and sometime in the early 00s the wood floor made a comeback. Nice little easy property booster for lots of people when they ripped the carpet up and refinished a hardwood floor for the low.
>and remove the lathe and plaster with drywall
how much drywall did you need to remove the lathe?
The Grammar Polizei are out in force today!
REPLACE the LATH and plaster. Autocorrect struck again!
>My husband
I didn't know gay dudes liked PrepHole
looks like a face
When I was looking at some real old houses, one of them had a hidden area behind the wall that was used to apparently store liqueur during prohibition.