Hello Diane,
Check out what Diane Bruck wrote on 08 Nov 97  23:40:00:
 DB> Does anyone out there have any experience in replacing lath and plaster?
        I can tell you what we did to repair our home.( three rooms are 
finished) In our house the walls and ceilings are lath and plaster. We live 
in northern Calif. so..of course it cracks..our house is sitting on clay 
soil..so it expands and shrinks back down in size (the soil that is) The 
way we solved our problem was to scrape all the loose plaster off that we
could..then we hung dry wall...It looks very nice and we don't have the 
cracks anymore...
             Debbie Ford
           ford@syix.com
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   A right time to let go
   And a right time to fight 
   For what you must keep!!/~~
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