Essential Natural Plasters

Name: Essential Natural Plasters
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ISBN: 9780865718708

A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use

Michael Henry, Tina Therrien

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English

New Society Publishers
26 June 2018

Environmentally-friendly architecture & design; Building construction & materials; Interior design, decor & style guides; DIY: general

Series: Sustainable Building Essentials Series

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.

Michael Henry plastered his way across Ontario for a decade. His research, attention to detail, and mad-scientist plaster experiments have made him a noted expert and teacher in the field. Michael lives in Peterborough, Ontario with his wife and two children. He shares his knowledge at thesustainablehome.net.

Tina Therrien started plastering in 1997 with Camel's Back Construction, Ontario's first straw bale building company. A founding member of the Ontario Natural Building Coalition, she is co-author of More Straw Bale Building and operates Shelter By Hand, a timber framing company, in Low, Quebec, where she lives with her partner and daughter.

By: Michael Henry, Tina Therrien
Imprint: New Society Publishers
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 7
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 216mm, Spine: 11mm
Weight: 645g
ISBN: 9780865718708
ISBN 10: 0865718709
Series: Sustainable Building Essentials Series
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 26 June 2018
Recommended Age: From 16 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

"Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Natural Plaster Ingredients Chapter 3: Planning and Preparation Chapter 4: Mixing and Application Chapter 5: Earth Plaster Base Coats Recipe: Project Karyne Base Coat from Site Soil Recipe: Easily Workable Base Coat Using Bagged Clay Recipe: Straw-Clay Mud Recipe: Lime-Stabilized Base Coat Using Bagged Clay or Site Clay Recipe: Straworks' Baseball Diamond Mix Recipe: La Couche de Corps Recipe: Super Sticky Upside-Down Mix Chapter 6: Earth Plaster Finish Coats Recipe: All-Purpose Finish Plaster Recipe: Pigmented Finish Plaster with Fiber Recipe: Silty Subsoil Dolomite Sand Top Coat Recipe: Fat Plaster Recipe: Finish Coat with ""Mayonnaise"" Recipe: Finish Coat Using Bagged Clay Recipe: Glen's Wet-Burnish Plaster Recipe: Finish Clay Plaster with Shredded Paper or Cellulose Recipe: Polishing Clay Plaster Recipe: Starch Paste Recipe: Rice or Corn Starch Paste Chapter 7: Lime Plasters Lime Recipe: Simple Hydrated Lime Plaster Lime Recipe: Traditional Lime Putty-Based Scratch Coat with Hair Reinforcement Lime Recipe: Multi-Functional Hemp Lime Coating Lime Recipe: Lime Plaster with Manure Lime Recipe: Lime Plaster with Paper Pulp Lime Recipe: Tadelakt Lime Recipe: Stuc/Chevy Tadelakt Lime Recipe: Hot Mixed Lime Mortars Lime Recipe: Harling, Rough Cast, and Pebble Dash as External Lime Plastering Finishes Lime Recipe: Homemade Hydraulic Lime Base Coat Chapter 8: More Binders Chapter 9: Finishes and Aftercare Recipe: Carole Crews' Favorite Alis Appendix 1: Coverage Estimates and Conversions Appendix 2: Resources Contributors Index About the Authors A Note About the Publisher"

Michael Henry and he lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with his wife and two children. He shares his plastering knowledge at thesustainablehome.net. Tina Therrien and she operates Shelter By Hand, a timber framing company, with her spouse. She lives in Low, Quebec.