All Entries in the "Plaster Systems" Category

Lime Mortars DVD Review

This article is original content and has not appeared in The Last Straw.
St. Astier Natural Limes, a producer of hydraulic lime products from France, is offering a set of DVD videos called The Master Stroke DVD Tutorial Series.  The Master Stroke is a 4-disc series beginning with lime mortars.  Other discs cover plastering and rendering [...]

Earth Plastering Guidelines for Finishes – TLS #43

This article appeared in TLS #43.

by Gernot Minke – University of Kassel, Germany
Note: This article is excerpted from Earth Construction Handbook (by Gernot Minke, WIT Press, Southhampton, Boston, 2000) which contains further information about weather protection, physical and mechanical properties of clayey soils, treatments and additives and modern earth construction techniques worldwide.

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Birth of the Power Trowel: Pumping Without Spraying – TLS #42

This article appeared in TLS issue #42.  This issue includes articles about experimentation and development of bales made from various types of materials.  Articles about methods and equipment for spraying bales with plasters appear in #43 Spraying Earthen Plasters in Colorado), #33 (Stucco Pumping Iron).
by Peter Mack – Ontario, Canada
Very early on in our [...]

Plaster Pumping – Reprint from TLS #57

Merry Mudders
(Stucco Pumping Iron)
by Habib John Gonzalez – British Columbia, Canada
This article, under the title “Stucco Pumping Iron” appeared in TLS#33 (Plaster special issue). [See note at end of article.]
The system I’ve been using for helping owner/builders stucco their bale homes comes from New Mexico. Folks there hire the stucco pump and operator, rent [...]