Professional Documents
Culture Documents
1. Preparation
• Clean the surface and remove any dust, contaminated materials on plaster bases and
substrates for direct application of plaster, removing loose material and substances that may
impair the work.
• Form ties and other obstructions shall be removed or trimmed back even with the surface of
the solid base.
• Dissimilar Backgrounds: where rendering is to be continued without breaking across joints
between dissimilar solid backgrounds which are in the same plane.
• Cover joints with 200mm wide galvanized steel lathing as specified & approved fixed with
corrosion-resistant fasteners at not more than 600mm centers along with both edges and
apply mesh over electro-mechanical embedded conduits.
• Apply forcefully dash coat on concrete and concrete masonry surfaces indicated for direct
plaster application. Dash coat is to cover the full surface to be plastered and is to provide a
rough surface of sharp protrusions ranging from 3.0mm and 5.0mm.
• Dash-Coat Mix: 2 volume parts portland cement to 3 volume parts fine sand, 1 part bonding
agent to 3 parts clean water mixed to a mushy-paste consistency shall be left undisturbed,
and moist cured for at least 24 hours after application and before plastering.
• Install temporary grounds and screeds to ensure accurate rodding of plaster to true surfaces.
Check the straightness in each corner and add grout to hold the external corner beads in a
correct and internal position to be fixed using corrosion-resistant fasteners.
• Before plastering starts, dampen, by spraying water on concrete dash coat surfaces that are
to receive plaster with clean water.
2. Application
• All plaster shall be prepared in a mechanical mixer mix 1:5 (1 part cement and 5 part sand)
using sufficient water to produce a workable consistency.
• Mix fiber 0.6 kg/m3 of the mortar or plaster by first mixing it with some water (30%). After
all the ingredients have been added including the remaining mixing water,
• The plaster should be mixed for a further few minutes until uniform fiber dispersion. Plaster
not used within 1.5h from the start of mixing shall be discarded.
• The second coat shall be applied with sufficient material and pressure to ensure tight contact
with the dash coat.
• The surface of the second coat shall be brought to a true, even plane with a rod or
straightedge, filling surface defects in place with plaster.
• Applied plaster shall be floated as smoothly as possible and then steel-troweled. Steel
troweling shall be delayed as long as possible and used only to eliminate the uneven points
and to force aggregate particles into the plaster surface.
• Each plaster coat shall be applied to an entire wall or ceiling panel without interruption to
avoid cold joints and abrupt changes in the uniform appearance of succeeding coats.
• Wet plaster shall abut set plaster at naturally occurring interruptions in the plane of the
plaster, such as corner angles, openings, and control joints where this is possible.
• Make internal angles and corners square.
• Finished grooves shall be neat, of uniform width and depth, with sharp straight edges, and
exact vertical and horizontal lines. Elevation grooves shall be cut before plaster sets by using
a molded guide or wooden strip and fixing it in temporary grout and screed. Regarding
recessed, follow the procedures the same as grooves.
• Form cornices by plastering additional coats against pre-formed wood templates fixed onto
plastered elevation.
• Make form wood templates to shapes, dimensions, and projections indicated on drawings.
Apply additional undercoats in thickness not more than 10mm until obtaining the required
projection.
• Plaster should not deviate more than plus or minus 3mm in 3m from a true plane in finished
plaster surfaces, as measured by a 3-m straight edge placed in any location on the surface.
3. Curing
• Provide sufficient moisture in the plaster by spraying water as frequently as required at least
twice per day.
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