Essential Natural Plasters: A Guide to Materials, Recipes, and Use [Paperback]

A veritable cookbook of natural plaster recipes and techniques for beautiful, durable finishes

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 Plasterscovers 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, repairing, and applying plasters
• Coveted recipes from leading plasterers in Ontario, Vermont, New Mexico, France, and New Zealand.

Richly illustrated and deeply researched,Essential Natural Plastersisthemust-have resource for owner-builders and professionals alike.

A veritable cookbook of natural plaster recipes and techniques for beautiful, durable finishes

• Both authors have done extensive research and worked on numerous plastering jobs
• Tina is a founding member of the Ontario Natural Building Coalition
• Essential Natural Plastersis part of the Sustainable Building Essentials Series
• Includes proven natural plaster recipes from professionals from around the world
• Takes the reader through the step-by-step process of plastering including sourcing materials, setting up a work site, safety, and to how to apply the plaster
• A comprehensive guide to plastering with the North American climate in mind, and with ingredients easily found on this continent.