Fifteen schools in Norfolk have ceilings in need of urgent repair and dozens of other schools have been checked for potential issues. Since the start of the academic year, two schools in Norwich have ...

Q Am I right that when sections of plaster break away from the lath, an accepted repair technique is to roughly fill in those gaps with drywall and then drywall over the whole wall or ceiling? — M.H., ...

Ceilings at 60 schools are now being checked over fears they could collapse. A school in Norwich was closed for three days as a precaution, with 23 schools initially deemed at risk. Norfolk County ...

An urgent briefing has been called by councillors after a school was forced to close over ceiling safety concerns. Avenue Junior School in Norwich was closed after a building surveyor identified ...

Q: I recently moved into a house built in 1916 in Albany. Some of the house has been remodeled, but the rooms that haven't have plaster walls. I've been told that plaster cracks often due to settling.

Q I live in a ground-floor conversion flat in an 1875 house. A small section – about 3 sq m – of the original lath-and-plaster ceiling has fallen, together with a length of highly decorative cornice.

Q. We're buying a house that is probably close to 100 years old. It has been vacant for the past several years and needs a good amount of cleaning up and fixing up. One thing we're concerned about is ...

Drywall is common and ubiquitous in commercial and residential buildings today. Many of us barely think about it until we have to repair a hole smashed in it. However, drywall has not been around ...