Description:A veritable cookbook of natural plaster recipes and techniques for beautiful, durable finishesNatural plasters made of clay, lime, and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite creativity, they are high performance and provide proven, centuries-long durability.Yet until now there's been no resource that has pulled together the best North American plaster recipes and how-to into one place. Essential Natural Plasters covers it all:Sourcing and selecting materials, including site-soilsClay, lime, and gypsum plasters as well as fibers and amendmentsInterior and exterior use and specialty plasters such as tadelakt for bathroomsPreparing substrates, from straw bales and cob to lath and SheetrockHow to set up a safe, efficient worksiteMixing, testing, tinting, repairing, and applying plastersCoveted recipes from leading plasterers in Ontario, Vermont, New Mexico, France, and New Zealand.Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Essential Natural Plasters is the must-have resource for owner-builders and professionals alike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Essential Natural Plasters: A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use. To get started finding Essential Natural Plasters: A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
224
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
New Society Publishers
Release
2018
ISBN
1550926632
Essential Natural Plasters: A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use
Description: A veritable cookbook of natural plaster recipes and techniques for beautiful, durable finishesNatural plasters made of clay, lime, and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite creativity, they are high performance and provide proven, centuries-long durability.Yet until now there's been no resource that has pulled together the best North American plaster recipes and how-to into one place. Essential Natural Plasters covers it all:Sourcing and selecting materials, including site-soilsClay, lime, and gypsum plasters as well as fibers and amendmentsInterior and exterior use and specialty plasters such as tadelakt for bathroomsPreparing substrates, from straw bales and cob to lath and SheetrockHow to set up a safe, efficient worksiteMixing, testing, tinting, repairing, and applying plastersCoveted recipes from leading plasterers in Ontario, Vermont, New Mexico, France, and New Zealand.Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Essential Natural Plasters is the must-have resource for owner-builders and professionals alike.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Essential Natural Plasters: A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use. To get started finding Essential Natural Plasters: A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.