What’s The Drill Android Only #10: Walabot for Lath & Plaster For Models: DIY Plus and DIY Plus X
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Watch how to use Walabot for lath and plaster in this video. You’ll see from start to finish how to transform your smartphone into the best stud finder for plaster walls!
Looking for how to hang things on plaster walls? Follow these steps to get the job done right:
- Connect the Walabot to your smartphone.
- Calibrate the Walabot. (For more in depth instructions, watch our video on Walabot calibration.)
- Select Expert mode and then, select Plaster mode.
- Slowly slide the Walabot across the wall. Objects will show up as red images on your phone’s screen. You may need to adjust the intensity level for a clearer reading.
Be sure to follow our handy tips in the video for how to get the best results when using Walabot for lath. For example, how can you tell if the objects you found are studs? If the series of objects appear at regularly repeating intervals (usually every 16 inches), you can be sure they are studs.
Time Stamps:
00:00 What is lath and plaster?
00:53 Calibration and Expert Mode
01:48 Identifying Objects
02:56 Identifying Studs
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Im glad that a company finally states that a stud finder works on plaster and lath, 16 inch is typical but in some places 20 or 24 is also common as well
How do you known you found the edges? you only know because you can see the stud. It did not show that it is an edge just tow red blurs.
Oh Lord, studs in an 150+ year old house, MAYBEEEEE 6" MAYBEEEEE 16" 🤣. But there is no stronger home than the one I live in❤️ I love her, and need something to help me find wires/studs, so I can rewire her.
@shawnsisler3743
4 жыл бұрын
Oh, oh.... if you have old brass hardware on your windows and doors and stuff but they are covered in paint or old varnish, don't throw them out... Get an old crockpot from a second-hand place and put them in with Dawn dish soap for a few hours and scrub them, if that doesn't work use Citristrip paint remover in the crockpot on low or keep warm for a couple of hours, takes it right off beautifully.
I tried finding wires behind L&P. The DIY plus X is worthless
Muy bueno gracias
Can it measure density of drywall, 1/4” vs 5/8” ? Thanks
@Walabot
Ай бұрын
No it won't detect density.
Will it detect electric current?
@Walabot
2 жыл бұрын
hi, Walabot will detect your wall wiring down to 4in deep. Walabot detects wires by detecting a change in wall density.
If they invent one that tells me where the mortar is between terracotta blocks behind plaster, I'll buy one.
Ok u showed it finding studs threw the plaster but it's going to detect the horizontal slats n u didn't show that...
@Walabot
Жыл бұрын
yes. this is how you do it kzread.infojShppG9VqAE
I don't know if my wall is drywall or plaster. If my regular walabot works on my wall, is my wall dry wall?
16 or 24" stud spacing. 12 or 14 is very rare.
When will the walabot plus be available for iPhone. I have an old home with plaster and lathe walls and would love to find something that better locates objects behind them.
@Walabot
Жыл бұрын
Hi, we are working on an iPhone model that will work with lath and plaster walls. We don't have a timeframe yet on when this will be available.
@RPHPros
Жыл бұрын
@@Walabot Thank you for that reply!
@Walabot
Жыл бұрын
Happy to help. 😀
@atari2800
Жыл бұрын
@@Walabot was about to ask the same thing. looking forward to it!
You still didnt read a lath wall you read the open frame wall the lath part up above put some plaster on that or go to an old farm house and demonstrate ,im not paying 170 dollars only to find it dont read through lath and plaster walls at my sisters farm house
@Walabot
7 ай бұрын
Walabots are only recommended for drywall. Unfortunately, we don't have any units working on lath and plaster at the moment but we are working on it.
@TacomaTacos
20 күн бұрын
@@Walabot wasn't that the title of the video? shame ...
Looks rubbish here, can imagine worse in actual use
as an electrician, your market should be us, often times i just cut a hole not knowing where the stud is located (plaster and lath). i just purchased one of your units for this purpose, i can find drywall studds just fine knocking with my knuckles or with a magnet or cheapo stud finder that i purchased in 2007, which i still use, with the same 9v battery that refuses to die. point in case stud finders are cheap, but if your tool can accurately locate studs in lath and plaster, or even the bastard child of that which i recently came acrossed...... steel mesh over 1/4" drywall, + steel mesh then a 1/4-1" layer of plaster...... help me lord god, allah, vishnu anyone..... i was reallly interested when you were a startup, and i am still interested now. i hope that your company coroborates with NDT labs like hutchinson mn and the other two in the usa which use penetrating radar imaging to get the best results. as a electrician the best that i can hope for is maybe i'll recommend the product, but i wish you have the funds to R & D to make it better too.
Magnet 🧲 Stud finger on Amazon =9 bucks...
@marmarc4203
Жыл бұрын
STUPID IT DOESN'T WORK ON LATH & PLASTER.
@realitychampion8022
Жыл бұрын
@@marmarc4203 only a fool would pay 160 bucks for this.. a zircon is 25 bucks ..