| Here's what a wood
lath and plaster wall looks like, after one side had been removed. I
don't know exactly when they stopped using wood lath, but I would guess
it to be around the 1930s.
The wood lath, is usually about 3/8 of an inch thick and an inch and a
half wide and was nailed onto the wall framing and then a plaster
mixture, was applied over the wood lath.
The plaster would then be smoothed out, to form a reasonably flat wall.
It was still going to be quite a while, until drywall was going to take
the place of wood lath and plaster home finishes.
The next time someone asks you about wood lath plaster, now you have a
pretty good idea, what it looks like, from behind.
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