All Entries Tagged With: "trowel"
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
