![]() I prefer to play it safe for peace of mind. Depending on your situation they can be both beautiful and annoying. ![]() You cannot lift them single handed (well I can't anyway) and you really do not want them coming off. Lath and plaster walls are a part of life in an old house. Whilst possibly over the top but these radiators are seriously heavy and more so when filled with water (they take a lot). With the larger verticals and no feet I found it easier to take down the lathe and plaster and build a studwork frame to suit the radiator fixings before plasterboarding and re-skimming. With the largest of the column cast iron rads I have fitted I removed a horizontal rectangle of the lathe and plaster and fixed timber at the height of the studs before plastering back over. I would strongly recommend buying the Zircon stud detector which I have found excellent and picking up the line of small lathe nails. The radiator stays can go between any of columns to suit the stud spacing. The advantage to the columns is you have much more leeway that with the majority of standard radiators where it will be fixed. In my experience the rad brackets never align with two sets of studs even with the small amount of horizontal play. Although gypsum plasters were the most common wall material, there are others. Wooden boards are a common wall covering in pre-World War II homes. Sometimes, compressed wood and drywall sheets were used in homes at this time. If it is a DIY project, the overall cost will be 1.60 to 3.80 per square foot considering the plaster and lath removal cost and the price of Sheetrock. The average cost of replacing lath and plaster with drywall is between 1,020 and 2,800 when done by a professional contractor. Still I would want it fixed to the studs. Lath and plaster is the most common wall material for homes built in the early 1900s. Cost to replace lath and plaster with drywall. The majority of the weight is being directed straight down. The lath is then embedded with three layers of wet plaster. Four-foot-long strips of wood lath, typically 1-inch wide, are nailed directly to the open wall studs. With the rads like the one pictured I would use feet like mentioned above if at all possible. Lath and plaster refer to an interior wall construction technique that typically predates the 1940s. Current task is a wall hung vertical weighing in a 68Kg dry to lathe and plaster. Have had and am still having the same problem as yourself.
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