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Applying Lime Plaster to Mixed Masonry

Eine teils verputzte historische Wand aus Bruchstein und Feldbrandziegeln, die zeigt, wie man fachgerecht Kalkputz auf Mischmauerwerk auftragen kann, mit einer Maurerkelle im Vordergrund.

When I bought my old farmhouse from 1888 in Romania in 2016, I knew there would be a lot of work ahead of me. But only when I started knocking the layers of plaster off the walls did the true structural challenge of this project reveal itself. Beneath the crumbling plaster emerged a fascinating, yet building-physics-wise highly demanding structure: a solid mixed masonry consisting of hard, cool Saxon rubble stones and relatively soft, extremely absorbent field-fired bricks. Continue reading “Applying Lime Plaster to Mixed Masonry”