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Subject0: jlhusa1@aol.com
Date: 10 Oct 2007
Time: 18:24:33 -0400
Remote Name: 24.89.30.47
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We have a 1910 Victorian Farm home. Structure is very sound. God Awefull Wallpaper abounds. We want to restore the walls in the parlor, that are currently covered in 3 or 4 layers of very old wallpaper. When starting to remove it, it was apparent there was little to no finish coat of the original plaster left. It is quite dry (crumbling to dust actually) and cracked. If I endevor to get most or all of the wallpaper off the horsehair plaster without pulling it all out of the lathe, what prep should I do before begining the plastering stages? I am concerned since there seems to be joint compound or gypsum plaster in some spots - possible repairs to old cracks and what looks like raw either brown or scratch coats under the paper in others.