Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Lath seen from the back with white plaster coat oozing through. Lath and plaster is a building process used to finish mainly interior dividing walls and ceilings. It consists of narrow strips of wood which are nailed horizontally across the wall studs or ceiling joists and then coated in plaster.
The polished floors, the lath and plaster walls, and the wood furniture offered the fire sufficient fuel, causing the roof to collapse and the flames to shoot into the air. Upon realising that they could not save the south and west wings, they concentrated on saving the north wing.
The technique is similar to modern lath and plaster, a common building material for wall and ceiling surfaces, in which a series of nailed wooden strips are covered with plaster smoothed into a flat surface. Many historic buildings include wattle and daub construction, mostly as infill panels in timber frame construction.
The upper levels of 12 Logan Road retain original lathe and plaster walls, ceiling roses, timber stairs and fireplaces with timber mantelpieces. Much of the internal fabric in this part of the building is decayed and plasterwork has fallen off walls and ceilings. The first floor is a single open space with metal storage racks suspended from the ...
Similar plans to convert Spreytonway have been shelved for financial reasons. The building is in a deteriorating state - as of 2015 the glass has been removed from the verandas for safety, slates have slipped from the roof and the plaster on lath ceiling has collapsed in one upstairs room visible through a window. Services have been switched off.
Collapsed buildings and structures in the United States (3 C, 17 P) Pages in category "Collapsed buildings and structures" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total.
The first coat is of coarse stuff finished fair with the darby float and scoured. A thin coat of setting stuff is then laid on, and trowelled and brushed smooth. Two-coat work is described as render and set on walls, and lath, plaster and set, or lath, lay and set on laths. Three-coat work is usually specified for high specification work.
2018 Marseille building collapse: Marseille, France Apartment building 8 dead, 2 injured 2019 2019 Lagos school collapse: Lagos, Nigeria Residential building 20 dead, over 60 injured 2019 Zadra: Zator, Poland Roller coaster: 2019 Notre-Dame de Paris fire: Paris, France Cathedral roof and spire collapse 3 injured 2019 Sihanoukville building ...