Essential Natural Plasters: A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use (Sustainable Building Essentials Series, 7)

Essential Natural Plasters: A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use (Sustainable Building Essentials Series, 7)

<p><b> A veritable cookbook of natural plaster recipes and techniques for beautiful, durable finishes </b></p><p> 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. </p><p> Yet until now there's been no resource that has pulled together the best North American plaster recipes and how-to into one place. <em> Essential Natural Plasters </em> covers it all: </p><ul><li> Sourcing and selecting materials, including site-soils </li><li> Clay, lime, and gypsum plasters as well as fibers and amendments </li><li> Interior and exterior use and specialty plasters such as tadelakt for bathrooms </li><li> Preparing substrates, from straw bales and cob to lath and Sheetrock </li><li> How to set up a safe, efficient worksite </li><li> Mixing, testing, tinting, repairing, and applying plasters </li><li> Coveted recipes from leading plasterers in Ontario, Vermont, New Mexico, France, and New Zealand. </li></ul><p> Richly illustrated and deeply researched, <em> Essential Natural Plasters </em> is <em> the </em> must-have resource for owner-builders and professionals alike. </p>