Decorative Plaster With Your Hands

The possibilities of decorating walls are simply not countable. The variety of building materials that can cope with this task is truly enormous. One of the most versatile materials for these purposes is decorative plaster with your own hands. This material is simple enough to handle. In addition, he provides a lot of options for decorating rooms in a variety of techniques and styles.

Decorative plaster with their own hands is applied as successfully as professional masters. In favor of the choice of this material for performing decorative works in the apartment, not only aesthetics, but also the simplicity of its application, speaks. The finished walls can later be washed using cleaning agents, so that they will retain their original appearance for a long time.

When choosing plaster in the market, one can get confused in the variety of its names. The terms "plaster", "stukko", "putt", which are written on packages, bring confusion. All these are synonyms, in translation from English, Italian and German meaning one and the same - plaster. In addition, the plaster is classified according to the application technology. By this criterion it is divided into relief, "roller", "coat", mosaic, "rust" and others.

Decorative plaster of walls with their own hands is applied easily, if you become acquainted with the main points of the instructions for application. In short, they can be shined to the next.

Main types of material

  This material is a paste intended for application on the surface of walls and ceilings. It can be used as a basis for other materials, and also as a completely independent finish.

Structural plaster is a mass of granular texture with admixtures of granules. It is silicate, mineral and based on synthetic latex.

Flock - small grains of different colors, which are applied to the glue.

Venetian plaster imitates marble.

A kind of plaster "antique" is based on synthetic latex, which after the application creates the effect of appearing scuffs.

All plasters are divided into small- and coarse-grained.

The color of the plaster can be imparted to any one with the help of colors (colored pigments) mixed with white material.

Decorative plaster with own hands: application technology

Apply the material to the leveled and pre-primed surface. If the walls are too smooth, then in order to prevent the grain from slipping over the surface, it is necessary to use as a primer varnish or paint containing quartz chips that will give the walls the necessary roughness.

To work with this plaster tools from steel do not suit. Better to apply it with a broom and a stick. The broom dips into the solution and strikes a stick located parallel to the wall at a distance of 10-15 centimeters from it. Then the plaster is wiped with a wooden half-wiper.

To get a long-line ornament, plaster is applied with a trowel on the wall, it is ground, and when it dries, it is covered with a wooden half-wool. The texture can vary depending on the direction of movement of the half-hook.

The application of decorative plaster also depends on the tools by which this is done. The solution is applied by a trowel. When it dries a little, you can begin to give the final texture. You can do this with rollers, brushes, sex brushes of different diameters and sizes, brushes. The texture is different depending on the force of pressing, as well as the speed of movement of the tool, the degree of setting of the material.

Decorative plaster with your own hands, before it becomes perfectly uniform, will require some training. It is better to do works with not very large sections in order to be able to count on your strength.