How to plaster the facade of the house

Private homes are not always trimmed with siding or other building materials. An alternative to expensive finishing building materials is finishing plaster. It has not such a high price, but due to numerous properties it will help to preserve the appearance of the house. The plaster is applied to stone, concrete, wood and brickwork.

Types of plaster

Modern facade plaster, widely represented in the construction markets, is made with the help of cement and lime binders. It has various properties: water-repellent, X-ray and fire retardant, heat-insulating. The applied plaster can be painted, but its decorative types do not need additional painting.

Decorative types of this finishing material include various fillers:

• marble chips;
• quartz sand;
• glass crumb.

The condition of the facade of the house, whose walls are covered with plaster, is influenced by temperature changes and regular climatic precipitation. Periodic plastering allows you to maintain the facade of the house in good condition.

In order to maintain the effect of the performed manipulations for a long time, before plastering the facade of the house, you need to choose the finishing material very carefully.

High-quality building material should have the following characteristics:

1. Increased moisture resistance and resistance to various weather phenomena like rain and snow, high frost and humidity.
2. A good quality plaster should allow moisture to escape from the walls of the house. In winter, a certain amount of moisture accumulates under the layer of finishing material. If the material does not have the proper degree of vapor permeability, then all the accumulated moisture remains under the plaster and prematurely destroys the facade of the house.
3. High-quality finishing material must have frost resistance. Plaster that does not have this property may crack in the cold, thus leading to premature destruction of the facade of the house.
4. Good plaster requires resistance to various mechanical damage.

Finishing plasters with one or several of the listed properties are widely represented on the modern construction market.

Preparing the facade of the house for the application of plaster

Before plastering the facade of the house, you need to consider the following points:

1. To begin work on the application of plaster is possible only after a full or partial precipitation of the walls of the house. This will help prevent cracking of the applied layer of finishing material. Therefore, all construction work must first be completed: building a house, laying communications and waterproofing. Putting plaster is the final stage of finishing the house.
2. When finishing it is necessary to thoroughly clean the facades of buildings from various contaminants. The plaster will not be able to lie flat on the contaminated surface, it will fall off from the uncleaned walls.
3. Depending on weather conditions at the time of application of the finishing material, the facade of the wall should be moistened with water. This is especially necessary in dry warm weather.
4. Plastering requires special construction tools: plumb, brush, trowel, metal brush.

Plastering the facade of the house

Facade plastering is carried out as follows:

• The surface of the facade of the house should be flat. In case of strong irregularities, it is recommended to use steel mesh, which allows leveling the wall surface for subsequent finishing.
• If the plaster is applied to an already plastered surface, you need to choose the most suitable finishing material. At the initial use of plaster on the facade of the house, you should choose a finishing material that is suitable in its properties and qualities to the materials from which the walls are lined.
• An initial cleaning of the facade of the house from pollution. If they are not there, then you can proceed directly to plastering the building.
• First, a spray is applied on the facade of the house - a thinner layer of plaster, which will allow the next, more dense layer to fix on the wall of the building. Its thickness should not exceed 0.5 cm.
• 1-2 days after the initial treatment of the facade is applied the main "soil", 2 cm thick. It has all the properties inherent in the selected plaster.
• A few days later (from 2 days to 2 weeks, depending on weather conditions), the plastered facade of the building is treated with a “covering” of 0.5 cm with a finishing layer of plaster.

After a week or two, you can apply paint on the finished wall or, when using decorative plaster, leave it as it is. Often, the facade of the building is decorated with notches or strokes applied on not yet frozen plaster. In this case, painting is optional, and the wall decor will be unique.

You recently did exterior home repairs or finished building your own home. For the decoration of the walls was chosen plaster. Tell us about your experience in choosing a decorative material and the features of the work, leaving a comment on the article.

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