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  2. Cement render - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the 'look' required, rendering can be fine or coarse, textured or smooth, natural or colored, pigmented or painted. The cement rendering of brick, concrete and mud houses has been used for centuries to improve the appearance (and sometimes weather resistance) of exterior walls. It can be seen in different forms all over southern ...

  3. External render - Wikipedia

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    Rendering is a traditional craft that has evolved over many centuries. Basic rendering began as a method of excluding draughts and rain by using clay to fill in cracks and crevices, referred to as wattle-and-daub. [1] Other renders, based on lime [2] binders were also used over the years. These materials had one significant disadvantage in that ...

  4. Plasterwork - Wikipedia

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    Lime plastering is composed of lime, sand, hair and water in proportions varying according to the nature of the work to be done. The lime mortar principally used for internal plastering is that calcined from chalk, oyster shells or other nearly pure limestone, and is known as fat, pure, chalk or rich lime.

  5. Plaster - Wikipedia

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    Plaster (often called stucco in this context) is a far easier material for making reliefs than stone or wood, and was widely used for large interior wall-reliefs in Egypt and the Near East from antiquity into Islamic times (latterly for architectural decoration, as at the Alhambra), Rome, and Europe from at least the Renaissance, as well as ...

  6. Earthen plaster - Wikipedia

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    All plasters and stuccos have several common features: they all contain a structural component, a binding element, and some form of fiber. Usually the term plaster refers to a wall covering made from earth, lime or gypsum, while stucco uses a cement or synthetic binding element.

  7. Cement - Wikipedia

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    It was highly durable and had a much faster setting time. Wait convinced the New York Commissioner of Highways to construct an experimental section of highway near New Paltz, New York, using one sack of Rosendale to six sacks of Portland cement. It was a success, and for decades the Rosendale-Portland cement blend was used in concrete highway ...

  8. Lime plaster - Wikipedia

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    The plastering process involved the initial application of a coarse layer of plaster known as "arricio," followed by subsequent layers of lime putty blended with powdered marble to achieve a smooth and polished surface. On occasion, pigments were added to the wet plaster to introduce vibrant hues.

  9. Brick - Wikipedia

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    Keyed – indentations in at least one face and end to be used with rendering and plastering; Paving – brick intended to be in ground contact as a walkway or roadway; Thin – brick with normal height and length but thin width to be used as a veneer; Specialized use bricks: Chemically resistant – bricks made with resistance to chemical ...

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