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Have done lime pointing in and out. That goes OK.
Now I'm going to plaster and bag a whole wall, about 110 sq ft.
Ready mixed plaster in tubs from Trad Lime. Expensive way of buying water, but heyho.
The wall is coursed rubblestone, lime pointed years ago, some peaks and dips.
The first coat, hair reinforcement, will be thrown on with a harling trowel... think Grandma's coal shovel... Sloppy, quite thin.
Wall will be damp before starting, but not wet.
Room is unheated.
Misting for a couple of days I guess.
How to tell when it's ready for the next coat?
Next coat the same, but thicker. Compress it with a hessian bag, going to be a bagged finish.
More misting.
Inevitably given the rough surface, the thickness will not be uniform.
How long to leave it before the final coat?
Final coat with finer plaster. Ochre dye.
Hessian bag again.
More misting.
Read in the NT mag a comment about the refurb of Lindisfarne Castle, 'it will be at least a year before the new lime plaster can be decorated'.
Ye gods.
So, how to judge the timing?
Ivor
Now I'm going to plaster and bag a whole wall, about 110 sq ft.
Ready mixed plaster in tubs from Trad Lime. Expensive way of buying water, but heyho.
The wall is coursed rubblestone, lime pointed years ago, some peaks and dips.
The first coat, hair reinforcement, will be thrown on with a harling trowel... think Grandma's coal shovel... Sloppy, quite thin.
Wall will be damp before starting, but not wet.
Room is unheated.
Misting for a couple of days I guess.
How to tell when it's ready for the next coat?
Next coat the same, but thicker. Compress it with a hessian bag, going to be a bagged finish.
More misting.
Inevitably given the rough surface, the thickness will not be uniform.
How long to leave it before the final coat?
Final coat with finer plaster. Ochre dye.
Hessian bag again.
More misting.
Read in the NT mag a comment about the refurb of Lindisfarne Castle, 'it will be at least a year before the new lime plaster can be decorated'.
Ye gods.
So, how to judge the timing?
Ivor