Hanging anything onto a plaster wall is a bit of a challenge. Depth finders help locate studs behind the plaster, but drilling through plaster and lathe into a stud is often problematic. There are a ...

I am trying to affix a bookshelf to a real plaster wall. The toggle screws will not stay in. The plaster crumbles. At one point, I hit some kind of wood, which also crumbled. My neighbor suggested ...