Venetian plaster - a detailed description of the application of technology with their own hands

actually correct the plaster should not be called "Venetian", but rather "Roman", because this material is known since the days of ancient Rome.Only then it was a mixture of marble chips with lime and natural dyes, and today more and more - the composition based on acrylic or vinyl copolymers with synthetic pigments, although there are also entirely conventional mixture.Skillful hands on the wall may create an illusion of marble coverings, fine wood, leather, metal ...

Venetian plaster - a sure way to emphasize the refined interior and give the room a luxurious appearance and status.Finishing coatings impart a glossy sheen, pearl shine or noble matt texture.It goes very resistant coating, the lifetime is calculated for decades, and the feature is that the longer such a plaster on the wall is, the stronger it becomes.

Small vyboinki and crack, in contrast to the wallpaper, is very easy to restore.Prices for the amount of plasters needed to cover 1 m., Start from 200 rubles., But the self-application can significantly reduce the overall costs.

Training and tools

Argued that the Venetian plaster does not require special preparation.This is partly true only for sufficiently dark and matte coatings with a pronounced pattern.On the bright and shiny walls will be visible to the slightest unevenness and deepening.The walls before applying the Venetian plaster is important to thoroughly clean the old cover, align and wipe if necessary - dry - in general as a liquid wallpaper.If the floor covering has nastlano, it is necessary to protect the film.

addition to patience, to apply the Venetian plaster will need the following materials and tools:

• mix of Venetian plaster, it is sold in plastic buckets, its consumption and the required number of layers on the packaging sothat knowing the area of ​​the wall, you can independently calculate the required amount of material (better to take it with a margin to work out and to save some for later possible repair),
• primer,
• color to white plaster, better to choose the same manufacturer,
• topcoat - wax, pearlescent paint, etc.,
• wide and narrow spatulas,
• special trowel for Venetian plaster, it differs rounded edges and very smooth surface, useful tools large and small sizes,
• flat brush to workin the corners,
• wet rag and a sponge, a water tank,
• drill with paddle mixing or other device, which efficiently and conveniently mix the plaster,
• piece of suede or suede glove for polishing coatings, for large areas is better to get a grinder withnozzle for polishing wax.

Working with plaster

ready wall must be primed for better adhesion of plaster to the surface and wait until it dries.Since Venetian plaster is not too dense coating, better pre-paint a wall with latex paint on the same basis as that of the mixture itself plaster, and the same color.The darker or lighter shade of foundation for certain types of plaster allow you to create unusual effects inner glow or depth.

Immediately prior work in plaster in a container, you must add water according to the instructions, stir thoroughly, zakolerovat if necessary.The dye should be added little by little, remembering that the wall covering will look a little darker than in the container.Since the work will last for several days, do not discard the cap, it will need to re-close the container to the plaster is still wet.Before each re-applying the mixture again stirred with a drill with a mixer attachment in a few minutes.

work more convenient to start from the top.In the middle of a large trowel is placed a small amount of the solution in volume of 2-3 tablespoons.Trowel leaning against the wall at an angle of about 15-30 degrees, and then with a strong push is carried on the surface of the arcuate movement of the bottom-top.Immediately across the smear is performed previous to disperse the plaster, then move on to the adjacent section of the wall.After 6-7 strokes trowel should be cleaned with a damp cloth.Thus covered the entire wall without bald spots.High-quality coating must be very thin, less than 1 mm, and translucent.The first layer must be dry to about 6-10 hours.

second layer may be a little darker or lighter, if you koleruete mixture alone.This will give the cover a greater resemblance to marble.The technology of the second layer is the same.When applying brushstrokes, you need to have them at the intersections of strokes of the first layer.In general, a chaotic pattern and must be obtained naturally.The upper layers can be made small trowel with fewer strokes.

Finish

latter layer need to let it dry for 15-20 minutes before you start polishing.For this wide trowel pressed almost to the wall and is carried out with strong pressure thereon.By moving the tool in different directions and crossing over the brush strokes are treated the wall.Then you need to leave the wall for the final drying for a few days, but better - a week, and can be applied wax.

Wax wall covered too with a trowel.It should be applied thinly, making strokes in different directions.Too thick layer of wax after drying will turn dark greasy spots.Instead of wax can be coated with a wall layer of varnish, for example, pearlescent particles, which are used for the brush.

work of skilled craftsmen with a few meters indistinguishable from marble cutting or other noble material.To begin to practice in the same self-applied Venetian plaster is better with small, inconspicuous area.Manufacturers mixtures often give master-classes in major building supermarkets and their offices.

If you are seriously thinking about how to cover the Venetian plaster walls of his home, to visit one of them to personally observe the professional movements.