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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 Plasters covers 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, and applying plasters and plaster repair
Coveted recipes from leading plasterers in Ontario, Vermont, New Mexico, France, and New Zealand.
Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Essential Natural Plasters is the must-have resource for owner-builders and professionals alike.
Michael Henry plastered his way across Ontario for a decade. His research, attention to detail, and mad-scientist plaster experiments have made him a noted expert and teacher in the field. Michael lives in Peterborough, Ontario with his wife and two children. He shares his knowledge at thesustainablehome.net.
Tina Therrien started plastering in 1997 with Camel’s Back Construction, Ontario’s first straw bale building company. A founding member of the Ontario Natural Building Coalition, she is co-author of More Straw Bale Building and operates Shelter By Hand, a timber framing company, in Low, Quebec, where she lives with her partner and daughter.
Author Biography
Michael Henry and he lives in Peterborough, Ontario, with his wife and two children. He shares his plastering knowledge at thesustainablehome.net.
Tina Therrien and she operates Shelter By Hand, a timber framing company, with her spouse. She lives in Low, Quebec.
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