Thursday, August 22, 2013

How to plaster a brick wall

Many people have outside the house one or more walls made ​​of bricks that are sometimes unpleasant or maybe out of date.Even an interior wall , such as a fireplace or an interlude between two environments sometimes you want to change and intonation so that you can decorate with wallpaper, wooden beads or simply paint it. This may seem hard to realize however, is not at all but requires only some basic processing methods . Here is how plastering a brick wall .




First you have to prepare the surface of the bricks so they should be cleaned making them free of dust and dirt. The bricks damaged can be repaired with stucco and filled with concrete made ​​of cement and mortar . When the brick wall is compact after the restoration, then proceed wetting the wall with a sponge soaked in water. It 'important fact that the surface is sufficiently moist so that applying the plaster there is a good binding between it and the bricks.

Just with the grout starts the hedge of the brick wall. The stucco for walls, is generally available in powder or ready and must be applied in the spaces so as to avoid the grooves between a brick and another, which could create problems for the purposes of filling and excessive waste of mortar and concrete. After the filling of the spaces between the bricks, you start with a first coat of cement and sand (mostly) to create the insulating part that, once dried encourages the application of the plaster finish. After waiting and then drying the mixed sand and cement, we proceed with a first coat of plaster put roughly with the aid of a trowel and during the step of drying , it begins to straighten it with a pole in wood and with a damp cloth . In this way the bricks are covered with a layer of about one centimeter between concrete and plaster.

The brick wall, then becomes a normal wall masonry, is accomplished with the phases of processes typical in fact Proceed with sanding and finishing after that, once dried, the wall must be sanded and coated wall painting, with saved a cloth or paper. The plaster at this point is perfectly smooth and the bricks behind it will be only a distant memory compared to a completely transformed. 


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