Last October, we began the final layer of plaster, a lime plaster. We need to coat all the walls of straw and that all the drywall on the ground floor. We started with the bathroom at a training site with Sylvie Pleasing . Because the technique of applying the lime plaster is much more complex and precise than that of plaster of clay, we needed a few days of practice to control the movement of application ... The coating is applied with tools, trowels and plastering trowels, while the plaster is applied with the hands. All this caused me a lovely tendinitis, but we Now a beautiful bathroom! We now have all the other parts coat ...
Lime has unique properties that make it very attracting, especially in a bathroom ... It is antifungal, antistatic and antiseptic and regulates moisture.
PREPARATION
It was first necessary to empty the bathroom, which explains the presence of the bath in the kitchen!
The bathroom was empty. At left, a wall of straw covered with plaster and clay right, a wall covered with gypsum mortar.
He had to prepare the surfaces of gypsum. By applying the mortar and laying out grooves with a notched trowel, it creates a mechanical grip for the lime plaster, which would not otherwise on a surface as smooth as gypsum.
APPLICATION
left, a wall coating of lime. At right, a wall waiting to be coated ...
finish the edges of beams and windows demand great skill to make beautiful rounded ...
THE RESULT:
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