Lime and Clay Natural plaster // Burnishing
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- Lime and clay plaster is an amazing material to work with. It has taken me some time to really feel comfortable with it, so I can get the best out of it. In this video I show you how I get what I would call a rustic burnished finish on the final coat of lime and clay plaster on my strawbale build. I go through the steps in the application process and give my recipe for the lime and clay plaster.
It has taken such a long time to get to this stage with the build, but it has been a learning process and hopefully I can share some of the those small lessons with you in this video. Teaching myself the different skills needed to build a natural building like this has been an amazing experience and there has been many things I would do differently but I wanted to learn these things by doing. Hopefully me showing you a few of those mistakes, the ways round them and the outcomes will help you if you do any of these things yourself.
This video also marks a big milestone in the build. The walls are done. Now there are just a few finishing touches to go and it will be complete.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:30 Plaster step-by-step
3:27 Burnishing
4:17 Second wall
5:11 Third (Big) and final wall
6:31 The look and feel when its dry
7:22 The final final job
Bravo.
Thanks!
You might like using a wooden trowel for this. It shaves, flattens and compresses.
Ah! Interesting, haven't seen anyone using one of those. I'll have a look around a bit more
how is this holding up? and did you use strong clay for this mix?
The plaster is doing great. I couldn't be happier with the final product. I used clay I dug from the garden, that I just removed the stones from.
Hey, nice finish. What is your recipe for this final coat plaster?
0:49 secs has the recipe. 1 part clay, 1 part lime, 2 part sand, 1 part chopped straw
@@GetMeOffGrid_ thanks! Watched it two times and somehow missed it
Nice work! Is the first coat of plaster the same mix? ... or is it a clay plaster and you only used the lime-clay mix plaster for the final coat?
I just found your earlier video where it looks like you used the same recipe, that being 1 part clay to 1 part lime to 2 parts sand to 1 part chopped straw. Thanks for the videos!
Yes, I used the same mix the whole way through. You can get away with not including lime on the base layers that fill the gaps. I'd heard that because they will have slightly different drying properties, there is the potential for the layers to de-laminate when drying. I don't know if this would happen in my case, as the final mix only had one part lime.
A Plaster is more unique and natural when it is not smooth and even....
I agree, the texture gives it a better quality