4:42 then along came the bean counters who said “why are we using plaster at all? After all WE don’t have to live here.”

What’s a darby?

Why don't we talk in this accent anymore

Oʻ0p😊😮e6😅4e

the fact that this dude puts like 10 nails perfectly aligned in his mouth in half a second is impressive

Thanks nerd!

Classic wholesome feel looking at this stuff!

That is a master journeyman

Wow! Look at those gorgeous 2x4's!

Andy, as rough as a badger's arse! 😂

In uk i worked on 400 yearold houses with lath(oak strips) and plaster(lime,sand,horsehair)..2scratch coats (two weeks to dry)then finish coat(trowling every 2days for 2weeks,) till set...😅good fun , but dont fall in the lime pit👍🏼😂😂

Can you imagine the arm and shoulder strength of the master plasterer? No gym needed!

Just in time for the post-War baby boom suburban expansion. Those houses probably had/have asbestos tiles on the outside. Levitt houses did/do. The basement pipes are also wrapped in asbestos.

Is this that chalk paper stuff they call dry wall? Utter garbage stuff. Just another modern day bloat corp greed endeavor at everybody elses expense.

that poor dude prolly got throat cancer after suckin on them nails for 30 years

It looks like that gypsum lath has asbestos. The texture and the fire resistance are clues. Does anyone know for sure?

Bros i fucking love gypsum so much

back when people actually took pride in their work

I love how even back then we had to make videos explaining the difference of a handyman’s work opposed to a true professional or master of his field.

Watching that guy feed nails out of his mouth into his hand without breaking rhythm or suffering a single mishit is absolutely incredible.

Any of those old masters could run circles around the modern insallers, who now have access to pneumatic and Electrical tools.😅

They used to call it "lathe". Now we call it "the wall"

Some people complain about power tools guy did all of this with a half hatchet and a mouth full of nails

10:19 ANDY WTF ANDY!!😂😂😂😂 SOMEBODY CALL MR. GEORGE 😂😂

I'm a 60 year old plaster, and it was great to see a video of the traditional ways. Besides, a few different ways of application and materials, the better plasterer in this video, was average. They didn't show him pushing any crown mouldings or doing any ceiling textures, all of which I could. The plastering trade takes on many different areas of architecture, which can take decades to master. But if you wanna learn, expect at least 2 years just to learn basics from green. Good luck finding a good teacher. They are very rare. I AM PLASTERER 1963😊

A true Craftsman barely gets his clothes dirty but gets the job done good

This movie came out in 1963 but has the feel of the early 1950s with the music, narration, and black and white. I guess the production company just never updated their style.

Plaster is so weak, brasilian concrete walls are the strongest in the word. 3/4" of concret covering the brics both sides, bullet proof

My home is a Sears catalog home, built in the 1920’s. All oak and plaster. Pretty interesting video!

Everyone in the comments is against gypsym, but have any of you actually gone into a house and had to try and repair/ remove lath and plaster? Doubt it. Once lath and plaster starts to crack and fail there is little that can be done to save it.

Been in the trade 48 years, plasterboards are massive now... served my time doing this method in the UK 1972 using jute scrim on the joints though

When I did sheet rock we used 4x12 sheets of it I can't imagine using all those tiny pieces.

I love that at 2:44 he has a mouth full of nails. And keeps spitting one out. Hope he doesnt do that with ceiling work too. Lol

No wonder drywall is the industry standard today and plastering has gone out of fashion ($$$$$).

Lol. Ark at this 1 came across this septic tank film about lath and plaster.. Anybody old enough remember gypsum lath board? No scrim needed . Tack a a proper split lath ceiling with lime plaster with, and here we go. Horse hair goats hair cow hair even pubic hair . That's some coarse stuff to punch it up for the scratch coat. Lime work evil

Copyright MCMLXIII = 1963

I’m here because Kirk Giordano recommended it. “Who’s the best? Kirk is!”

MCMLXIII looks like 1963 to me

I think Andy is the one who plastered my 1956 house

I've done a lot of demo. I'd take modern day sheet rock over the old style any day. The way they did their work makes a house almost last forever....and is a pain to demo lol.

Idk about putting screws in my mouth 😂

Перебор со шпаклевкой. Фактически получается, что гипсокартон штукатурится по маякам из раствора. Смысл тогда делать стены из гипсокартона. А в общем за столько лет технология не сильно изменилась

Очень интересно, но я одного не понимаю - почему листы горизонтально крепят а не вертикально?

Where is the lath?? That’s board and bs

When I built my home with my dad in the late 1980's we could still get gypsum lath. I had a hard time trying to figure out how to mix and apply plaster, wish this video was around then. Eventually I got it and over 30 years later my walls are still solid. I wish gypsum lath was still available .Drywall is total garbage.

What happened to my culture? To my inheritance? Why was my country robbed from me? I want it back.

I think I'd rather just use these small boards now, the big ones are a nightmare to carry and handle at anything above floor height.

Back when the thickness of materials acted as a sound barrier 😂 My first house had wood lathe and about 3/4” of plaster over it. You couldn’t hardly hang pictures without bending nails, and there was no way you’d damage the wall with a doorknob or by bumping into it. If you did happen to go through it, I’m sure you’d be injured.

They had all the tools,

Carrying render on a hod . Ouch don't they do wheel barrow s bk then