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Example sentences for "lathing"

Lexicographically close words:
lathed; lather; lathered; lathering; lathes; laths; latht; lathy; lati; latifolia
  1. Wire lathing, wire cloth or wire netting applied in the place of wooden lathing for holding plastering.

  2. Columns are also fire-proofed by wrapping expanded metal or other metal lathing around them and plastering.

  3. Then a furring system is put on and another layer of metal, lathing and plastering.

  4. Wooden studding, furring, or lathing should not under any circumstances be placed against a chimney.

  5. No wooden studding, furring, or lathing should be placed against the chimney.

  6. Wooden construction should be set back from the chimney as indicated in figures 11 and 12; or the plaster may be applied directly to the masonry or to metal lathing laid over the masonry.

  7. The rods are fastened to the rocky wall at favorable points by means of small prongs of some hard wood, and the whole of the primitive lathing is then thickly plastered with adobe mud.

  8. The walls are lined with a reed lathing over which mud is plastered.

  9. These specimens are very interesting examples of aboriginal lathing and plastering applied to stone work.

  10. Filling the spaces behind the lathing in a brick house with some fireproof and non-conducting material is a concession to usual modes of building.

  11. In lathing I was pleased to be able to send home each nail with a single blow of the hammer, and it was my ambition to transfer the plaster from the board to the wall neatly and rapidly.

  12. Even though the slate itself, if the material was good, might defy the elements for a long time yet, this was not true of the nails with which the slates were fastened to the lathing and planking.

  13. It was unavoidably necessary to re-lay the entire slate covering and to replace with new material the rotten spots in the lathing and planking.

  14. He remained at home until he had reached his eighteenth year, making himself useful along various lines but then entered upon an apprenticeship to the lathing and plastering trade, with which he was identified for forty years.

  15. After arriving at his destination Mr. Snell took up the work of contracting in lathing and plastering and also in cement work and was prominently identified with activities of that character until recent years.


  16. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lathing" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.