All Entries Tagged With: "lime"
How to Choose a Plaster System, part 1
This is the first article in a four part series explaining all of the issues surrounding the choice of a plaster system on straw bale walls…
One common system used on all types of “green” buildings is plaster as a wall cladding and finish system. Whether your building is adobe, straw bale, rammed earth, straw-clay [...]
Jeff Ruppert | May 31, 2009 | Comments 0
Using Hydraulic and Hydrated Lime Together
During the past five years the use of lime plaster has increased many-fold in the natural building world because it is readily available, can be relatively inexpensive, is easy and forgiving to apply. If you are doing research on what type of lime plaster to use you are probably aware of the different types of [...]
Jeff Ruppert | May 30, 2009 | Comments 4