The Lime Green Plaster Blog » SMOOTH exterior Stucco http://authentic-plaster-fx.net/wordpress Tadelakt - Intonachino - Marmorino - Hydraulic - Clays Thu, 02 Sep 2010 04:21:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Stucco Italiano Tadelakt Photo OPhttp://authentic-plaster-fx.net/wordpress/stucco-italiano-tadelakt-photo-op/ http://authentic-plaster-fx.net/wordpress/stucco-italiano-tadelakt-photo-op/#comments Fri, 02 Apr 2010 23:40:22 +0000 Authenticlime http://authentic-plaster-fx.net/wordpress/?p=107 charcoal Tadelakt

Aaron cohen from Stucco Italiano in Seattle stopped by one of my exterior Tadelakt lime plaster  projects in Vancouver BC  today …the big ham seized
the opportunity for a photo op…couldn’t keep his hands off the walls either. We then shot off to the sushi restaurant for some sea urchin ..mmmmmmThe Big Ham

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Tadelakt

Tadelakt plaster is a beautiful natural material that can enhance elements of the modern day home. With a texture and patina unmatched by any interior or exterior lime based plaster available on the market today,resembling honed stone and often referred to as looking like like leather. It is a mineral-based polished hydraulic lime plaster Authentic Plaster FX is the leading installer of Stucco Italiano’s Tadelakt lime plaster and stucco in Vancouver BC  in Western Canada.

Tadelakt plaster is  becoming an extremely popular alternative to traditional wet area materials such as limestone and ceramic tile . Tadelakt functions extremely well in wet areas and can form a seamless, monolithic  finish to kitchen back splashes,  bathroom, shower and powder room  areas. Made from natural hydraulic lime, quartz and marble. Tadelakt is naturally  white in color and can be pigmented to varying  intensities using natural color earth pigments  creating   spectacular intense patinas .

After black olive soap is applied, Tadelakt plaster finish becomes very durable, water resistant and repellent.

It is applied by hand and is  compressed to a dense smooth finish,  The olive soap (a fatty acid) penetrates the Tadelakt, then reacts with the lime creating a water-resistant surface.

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