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Limestone Plaster is it Real ?

This is the first of a two part series, of two projects we completed recently……

arcustonecoat lintel texture 150x150 Limestone Plaster is it Real ? One of my contractors was faced with the challenge of having a Limestone or Travertine lintel fabricated and installed.So like any good contractor does when he does not already have the resource in place,  he asks his best trades the ultimate question ” Do you know someone capable of doing this limestone header for me” he asks,as he is showing me the elevations. Not one to ever

Exterior Vancouver Tadelakt Plaster project complete!

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Landscaping is almost complete, this private residence in West Vancouver BC has the best of the best in contemporary finishes including a smooth exterior Lime Plaster Tadelakt finish …there is no other house like it in the lower mainland of British Columbia.

Ryan Chivers of Artesano in Boulder county  Colorado seems to think this  is the only, if not the biggest exterior ever done in north America with Tadelakt lime plaster …if you know of another  …drop me a line.

For  a smooth stucco finish there is no better finish then Tadelakt ,this Vancouver exterior Venetian Plaster, also incorporates a rain screen cavity system,usually associated with leaky condos here in Vancouver,but which became part of the BC building code approximately 2-3 years ago.

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Down to earth Tadelakt

Stumbled upon this blog with some great photography from a Tadelakt workshop

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Our workshop in France had an additional workshop within our workshop. Two Moroccan/French masons were there to teach “tadelakt,” a method of burnishing or polishing lime plaster and then sealing it with black olive oil soap. We had brief exposure to it some years ago from a young guy who had studied it in Morocco.Since then, we’ve collected numerous accounts of how it is done and as one would expect, those accounts differed enough to make our French opportunity all that more valuable.

Read the rest of the blog here  The Canelo Chronicles

Athena and Bill I’ll guess that you have more shots from this workshop…I know I for one would very much appreciate to see them.