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  2. Plaster - Wikipedia

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    Lime plaster was a common building material for wall surfaces in a process known as lath and plaster, whereby a series of wooden strips on a studwork frame was covered with a semi-dry plaster that hardened into a surface. The plaster used in most lath and plaster construction was mainly lime plaster, with a cure time of about a month. To ...

  3. Plaster veneer - Wikipedia

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    Cure time: There is only a 24-hour wait time to decorate over "one coat" veneer. Cure time is only for two or three coat plastering that may have lime in the finish. It is recommended to wait 28 days before painting a lime finish wall. However this wait time can be shortened by using an oil based primer once the plaster is dry. [6]

  4. Plasterwork - Wikipedia

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    Depending on the setting time of the plaster. once the moisture of the plaster starts to be drawn by the board a second pass is made. this is called knocking down. it is much like applying paint with a roller in wrist action and purpose. to smooth out any lines and fill in any major voids that will make extra work once the plaster starts to ...

  5. Buon fresco - Wikipedia

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    The buon fresco technique consists of painting with pigment ground in water on a thin layer of wet, fresh, lime mortar or plaster, for which the Italian word is intonaco. Because of the chemical makeup of the plaster, a binder is not required. However, some artists used lime as a binding medium for pigment to slow the drying process of the ...

  6. Intonaco - Wikipedia

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    Example of spray fireproofing, using a gypsum based plaster in a low-rise industrial building in Vancouver, British Columbia. Intonaco is an Italian term for the final, very thin layer of plaster on which a fresco is painted. The plaster is painted while still wet, in order to allow the pigment to penetrate into the intonaco itself.

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    It gets your dishes dry like a dishwasher from the 80s but without the heating coil that melts your plastic stuff. That thing is some sort of German black magic. Image credits: molten_dragon

  8. Fireproofing - Wikipedia

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    Fireproofing is rendering something (structures, materials, etc.) resistant to fire, or incombustible; or material for use in making anything fire-proof. [1] It is a passive fire protection measure. "Fireproof" or "fireproofing" can be used as a noun, verb or adjective; it may be hyphenated ("fire-proof").

  9. Fresco - Wikipedia

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    Buon frescoes are difficult to create because of the deadline associated with the drying plaster. Generally, a layer of plaster will require ten to twelve hours to dry; ideally, an artist would begin to paint after one hour and continue until two hours before the drying time—giving seven to nine hours' working time.