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Title: Occupation: Lath Renderer
Post by: Gaye on Wednesday 27 July 05 21:12 BST (UK)

Hi :)

Can someone tell me what this occupation is?



Ta

GAYE - NZ

Title: Re: Occupation: Lath Renderer
Post by: Bryan. on Wednesday 27 July 05 21:24 BST (UK)

Hi

LATH RENDER(ER)
A person who puts the first coat of plaster onto laths on floor and ceiling. (a plaster's assistant).


Bryan

Title: Re: Occupation: Lath Renderer
Post by: Gaye on Thursday 28 July 05 00:20 BST (UK)

 ;D  Thanks Bryan

Interesting...


 :-*

Title: Re: Occupation: Lath Renderer
Post by: ronald on Thursday 28 July 05 00:33 BST (UK)

Hi Gaye

Many old houses as now did not have interior walls of brick but would be 'studded' [4x2 timbers] and then be lathed and plastered.
The plaster being made of a lime and horse hair mix.
The new version of the same thing is studded and boarded with plaster board and then skimmed to finish.It is now called dry lining.
Both  are of course later versions of wattle and daub.

Title: Re: Occupation: Lath Renderer
Post by: Fiat Lux on Tuesday 16 August 11 01:32 BST (UK)

The occupation is lath render, not lath renderer. 

To render means to offer.  To rend means to split.  Both words have largely fallen out of use, but they linger on in phrases like "Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's" and "What God has joined together let no man rend assunder." 

A plasterer certainly renders plaster, but a lath render certainly doesn't render wood, he rends it - he splits it into laths.  The laths would be used for trellis work or to make plaster & lath walls, and I suspect that this partly explains the confusion between render & rend.  To call a lath render a renderer is like calling a plasterer a plastererer.  It's a common mistake today, but I think you'll find the Victorian census enumerators usually got it right.

As if to prove my point, the spell-checker on this site has just (correctly) challenged renderer as well as plastererer.

Title: Re: Occupation: Lath Renderer
Post by: seaweed on Tuesday 16 August 11 11:48 BST (UK)

 The spell check accepts plasterer of course it will not accept Plastererer

"As if to prove my point, the spell-checker on this site has just (correctly) challenged renderer as well as plastererer"

Title: Re: Occupation: Lath Renderer
Post by: youngtug on Tuesday 16 August 11 22:51 BST (UK)

Quote from: ronald on Thursday 28 July 05 00:33 BST (UK)

Hi Gaye

Many old houses as now did not have interior walls of brick but would be 'studded' [4x2 timbers] and then be lathed and plastered.
The plaster being made of a lime and horse hair mix.
The new version of the same thing is studded and boarded with plaster board and then skimmed to finish.It is now called dry lining.
Both  are of course later versions of wattle and daub.

Although you can fix plasterboard sheets with plastering side out and skim with plaster, drylining is with the decorating side out and you only tape and cover the joints [using taper edge boards of course]. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drywall