So here’s the deal, and it’s not exactly a can’t-beat-the-positiveness idea. You can’t screw the plaster back up. It’s brittle. You’re only going to make a bad situation even worse.
But to put onto a little wooden disk—we’ll suppose about the size of a silver dollar—and then screw through that into the lath?” Voila, you’ve made this big washer to spread out the force. The disk drags the plaster in, rather than smashes it in. It’s like giving your ceiling a big warm hug.
Some people like fancy metal plaster washers (yes, they exist). But for the DIYer or old-school home repairer (note: not to be confused with DIY help sites.) you’ve that (way) less expensive choice with none of the grits or sandpaper glue: wood disks in a sack-wood disks. They’re inexpensive, easy to create, and surprisingly effective. Functioning, as still holding up the ceiling after 20 years functioning.
I Have Done This – And It Works
Years ago when I lived in a shaky 1920s bungalow, I happened upon a sagging portion of ceiling in the dining room that, let’s face it, looked like it would take a contract out on me if it could. I wasn’t in the mood to rip the whole thing out, so I thought I’d give this a try.
I drilled some pilot holes and allscrewed the little wooden disks to the board. I spread them out relatively even, checkerboard style, then gently wedged the plaster back into place. And then you painted over them and — boom! — it looked fabulous. And it held, thanks to these wood disks embedded in the ceiling.
It’s not glamorous. It’s not high-tech. But it works. The fact it once held — and maybe is still holding, with a trace of conspiracy — might even give a skeptical reader the willies. And there’s something kind of good about that, you know?
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