How to apply decorative plaster

What will come in handy

tools and materials Decorative plaster - it's a bit not what we are accustomed to understand by plaster.This finish coating applied in a certain way.The classification of this group of materials depends on the type of binder and filler sizes.Binders may be mineral (cement and lime) and synthetic (acrylic, styrene acrylic, polyvinyl acetate resin).The most frequently used synthetic resin in the form of their aqueous solutions.Mineral binders are normally used for exterior finishing of buildings.

fillers plasters are granite and marble chips, quartz, a mixture of fillers, in connection with which there is a classification of the size of inclusions - coarse, fine-grained.The last plaster used for interior decoration, but certain rules and guidelines do not exist, all individually.

Types of plaster are these:

• dry mixture;
• ready-mix based on synthetic binders;
• decorative plaster to create a certain kind of coverage (woodworm, Venetian, etc).

If you want to make your own decorative plaster, it is easier to take a ready-made mixture for internal works, rather than to bother cooking it from a dry mix.Mixes for specific invoices are used solely for these particular textures and no longer turn out, no matter how hard you try.

For us to come in handy some special tools:

• bucket or bowl razvedeniyasmesi, if you take the finished, it is sufficient native buckets;
• trowel;
• scraper;
• poluterok;
• rollers, brushes, trays, brushes, combs;
• spatulas;
• drill mixer.

Tools is better to choose stainless steel, or steel corrode quickly and will leave an ugly red mark on the walls.

How to apply a decorative plaster own.Methods.

beautifully and intricately plastered wall - is not Novick.Ways to decorate the walls in such a way have been known since antiquity.So, first we prepare the surface.It should be clean, dry and smooth, without cracks.Pre-wall need to be primed, which will ensure better adhesion coating and durability.Before use, be sure to read the instructions may require some other additional preparatory work.

We know these methods of applying plaster:

1. spraying method, which can be referred to by other names, such as method of "snowball".Make it the easiest - a first layer is applied.After it dries, and the second is already on it are various accessories for beautiful reliefs until the broom.For example, the process of drawing looks like this: take a broom, dipped it in a mixture of plaster and shake it with the broom on the wall.Splashes fall randomly in the form of flakes, spray, the size of which will depend on the consistency of the mixture and the thickness of a broom.It turns out very effectively, if used for the first and second layers of plaster contrasting colors.
2. Relief surface with a trowel.Any figures again being made over the first layer.Just read about this method is useless, it should be seen at least once, and then it's easy to repeat all the action.
3. Texture method is done by applying several layers of plaster and painting of the surface layer.
4. Hatch-fleece.On the second layer is still fresh traversed a wire brush.Then, the walls should be dry days, after which a sponge or cloth should remove all chips from the wall.
5. stamping roller.The roller can be purchased with a special prepared pattern or just fancy wrap his rope, then get the impression of grass stems.
6. «sgraffito».With this method have a little tough, it is difficult, but its originality and beauty are the lost time.On the wall are applied several layers of the mixture, each a different color selected according to your taste.After the last coat it on a stencil cut curly little windows and the space inside them neatly trimmed.It turns out a kind of application on the wall.

Well, we figured out how to apply a decorative plaster on the wall, it now remains to translate their ideas into practice.