I've done tons of work on my house and you begin to amass a lot of different things when you're renovating and tearing things out. I've dealt with this in several ways, I've thrown it in the trash slowly, I've burned it in my backyard fire pit, and I've hoarded it in my basement. My Dad always seemed to hoard wood from different projects and picked it up various places because it was a 'good deal' with no sort of real plan in mind so I blame him.
I went to the basement and assessed the situation, the pile of lath was huge, I was sure I had enough but I didn't have any nails that were the correct length to go into a plaster wall with brick underneath. I set out to Lowes to pick out the only supplies I used: short roof nails, I wanted the nails to be visible on the wall.
I was making great headway and I was sure that I would complete my project the same day, then I ran out of lath. Blasted! Luckily a friendly human being who also had saved lath in their basement offered me some of hers to complete my project but could not meet up until a week later.
I finished the wall the next week after more lath arrived, lightly sanded and put on two coats of matt lacquer. I re-hung the bike rack much higher and finally I am able to put things below it. The lath wall makes the room much warmer feeling and we really love it and the fact we were able to reuse materials from the home.