Attached is a pic of my fireplace,
plastered with
a clay-lime finish over a 2-coat clay base. The brown parts are
cement-based.
Myself, I am an alternative builder and I also do all
kinds
of finish work, including cement stucco, clay plasters and am starting
to use gypsum and lime a bit. Not much success with bag
lime
in dry New Mexico, though, so far.
My question is about furring lath. I like to use
diamond lathe
but the
local variety is not self-furring. They do sell furring
nails
with
cardboard discs for "stucco-lath" (chicken wire,
basically)
but that
cannot be used with diamond lath.
I am always looking for an elegant solution to keeping the
lathe
furred out 1/4" or so. Any suggestions?
Steve Lewis
Silver City, New Mexico
P.S. Attached is a pic of my fireplace, plastered with a
clay-lime
finish
over a 2-coat clay base. The brown parts are
cement-based.
Thanks for the kind words and the picture of the way cool
fireplace.
There are numerous ways to fur out your lath.
1. You can drag a bundle of lath out to the sidewalk and beat it
with a hammer. We have done this a lot. It isn't as neat as the
factory but it works.
2. A method I saw on an old house was to drive large
nails
in the wall about 12" or so apart and bend them over.
Then you can nail your lath over the nails, driving the nail
right next to the bent over nail. This seemed to work real good
and fast.
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