This is regarding a possible rehab of another property that I own. It's an older home with wood lath and plaster wall. I am considering tearing out the lath and plaster down to the studs, then having it rewired throughout, then having the ceilings and walls sheetrocked. I would rather not sheetrock over the existing lath and plaster.
My question is about how contractors typically go about doing the sheetrock over the old ceiling joists and wall studs. How do they deal with the fact that after the demo of the original lath and plaster, the ceiling joists and studs are often uneven -- that is, not "planed".
Do they usually just do the new sheetrock by going with what they have and just shimming the areas that need to be shimmed to end up with a flat, "planed", and even new sheetrock wall? Is there some other way that this is usually done?