Plastering in Spain

I don't know how good your Spanish is, but these sites should hold some useful information.

I remember on one TV prog, cant think which it was maybe DIY SOS, the british plasters were suprised how fast the plaster went off in the heat.

Dave

I rmember a similar type one where the secret aditive for the red and brown effects is soil or clay. I don't know what the stuff was added to though, possibly lime & sand?

Someone will no doubt jump in here if I'm wrong but AFAIK the UK is the only country which uses a two-coat plaster system; everywhere else it's single-coat. But I don;t know any more than that...

David

band-aid.

It was really this point that got me thinking that perhaps they don't use gypsum, I did a ceiling in last years heat wave and were I started had

-- Mark

You might also want to check the previous thread on here about getting plaster out of a bucket!!

Dave

It wasn't the heat, but the local plaster they were using. It has to be mixed sloppy, then left to stand for a while until it thickens, then applied quickly before it goes off.

Was it that one a little while ago were a groups were doing up a house in Spain, and each week one couple got knocked out?

I remember that one chap was a plasterer or builder, and the stuff they used in Spain was very different

Ok fair point.

Dave

Like SWBO, unsuccessfully trying to buy butter in the corner shop.. "Er...burro? burro?" When she got back and consulted the phrase book, she found why she'd been glared at by the proprietor - she'd been asking for 'donkey'.

I think they call it Yesu, Geso or Yosa or something like that, and I've got a feeling that someone told me it was plaster of Paris, but I can't be sure. Good luck, at least the weather is good out there. Tom

Gypsum plaster is plaster of paris with aggregate and retarders added (and possibly other mystery ingredients like pink colouring ...) I expect that more retarder is added in hot climates

Anna ~~ Anna Kettle, Suffolk, England |""""| ~ Lime plaster repairs / ^^ \ // Freehand modelling in lime: overmantels, pargeting etc |____|

In article , Anna Kettle writes

Why don't they use multifinish like wot we do?......

anyone done work out there and know What the Spanish use

That's the stuff. Spelled with a 'g' I believe but pronounced 'yes-O'.

Don't know a lot about it, but FiL lives in Spain and told me they have (at least) two types. Normal gesso, for rendering and gesso rapido which sets ridiculously quickly. He described some tradesmen putting in wall boxes for electrics. They carved out a big hole, wired up, mixed up gesso rapido to the consistency of milk. Within minutes it was like a paste and when thick enough they slap it into the hole around the electric back boxes. It sets completely solid almost straight away and holds the box in place very securely.

With normal gesso the conventional practice seems to be to slap it on in as rough a manner as possible and not to even bother trying to smooth it off. ;-)

-- Steve

Cos they like rough scratchy walls ?

OK thanks everyone for the replies, ive decided to take a few bags of proper British Gyp plaster out there, Cant be assed with all this foreign Rapedo nonsense im going by boat, door to door almost, could be fun trying to explain the bags of white power to customs though :)

-- Mark