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– 224 pages
8.5 Inches × 11 Inches (w × h)
Weight: 645 Grams
BISAC:
HOUSE & HOME / Do-It-Yourself / General
Publisher:
New Society Publishers
ISBN: 9780865718708
Pub. Date: 2018-05-14
Essential Natural Plasters
A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use
by Michael Henry & Tina Therrien
Natural 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-soils
- Clay, lime, and gypsum plasters as well as fibers and amendments
- Interior and exterior use and specialty plasters such as tadelakt for bathrooms
- Preparing substrates, from straw bales and cob to lath and sheetrock
- How to set-up a safe, efficient worksite
- Mixing, testing, tinting, and applying plasters and plaster repair
- Coveted 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.
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