Workshop on Lime Plastering – December 3rd and 4th
Arrival on Friday (December 2nd) from 19:00 to 22:30 -supper will be served!- or Saturday (December 3rd) from 8:00 to 9:00.
This workshop’s goal is the transmission of knowledge about lime and all its possibilities. Special attention will be given to its striking possibilities as a plastering solution. This includes fully waterproofed plastering solutions. Theoretical and practical components will be balenced trough out the workshop. Together, these two learning moments will allow that, at the end of this workshops, the students have the ability to understand and apply this material.
The workshop will have three major stages:
1 – Transmission of theoretical knowledge on lime a pozzolans.
2 – Testing various plastering solutions (samples)
3 – Applying the acquired knowledge by plastering an adobe building built in a previous workshop. To learn more about this building click here.
This workshop targets all those (with or without training in construction) who have the curiosity to better understand this material.
It will be held in Portuguese with simultaneous translation into English.
Specific Objectives
By the end of the workshop, students will know…
1. Aerated Lime
…1.1. What is aerated lime (essencials)
…1.2. Wath is the aerated lime’s cycle (essencials)
…1.3. To identify aerated lime in powder or in paste
…1.4. That lime is a binder but also “paint”
…1.5. What is waterproofed aerated lime
…1.6. That lime can be made out of renewable materials
…1.7. To distinguish aerated lime from hydraulic lime and from Portland cement
2. Pozzolan
…2.1. What is pozzolan
…2.2. To recognize some kinds of pozzolans
…2.3. That pozzolan can be made out of renewable materials
3. Sand
…3.1. How to quickly recognize washed sand
4. Mortars and Plasterings
…4.1. How to make a fine and medium sand and lime mix
…4.2. How to make a pigmented fine sand and lime mix
…4.3. How to make a lime and pozzolan mix
…4.4. How to make a lime , pozzolan and drier mix
…4.5. The essencial ideas on making
……..4.5.1. Plaster
……..4.5.2. Sanded plaster
……..4.5.3. Fine sanded plaster
……..4.5.4. Smooth lining
Program
Saturday (December 3rd)
09:00 – Introduction
09:30 – Theoretical approach to the materials
11:00 – Break
11:15 – Trying the materials
13:00 – Lunch
15:00 – Making a plaster mix and plastering
18:00 – End of the working day
Sunday (December 4th)
09:00 – Plastering
11:00 – Break
11:15 – Making linings
12:00 – Lunch
14:00 – Making pigmented mix, whitewash, stucco, Tonachino and Esgrafito
19:00 – Closure