Plaster Care
On average, plaster casts stay on for about six weeks. This time is sometimes longer or shorter, depending on your age, general health and type of fracture. During this time, x-rays are done to check that the bone is healing well. If there are ... [... more]
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Mural Artist
On the lounge ceiling, a Renaissance-style mural of two men and a woman seem to be "watching" the action below. Sava achieves an interesting aging effect by first covering the canvas in 3mm of plaster, then painting ... [... more]
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Injecta Course
Because the damp had moved so far up the wall in the example we looked at, the plaster was chipped off to a height of about a metre. Next, 10mm holes were drilled into the bricks along the lower course. Hollow metal ... [... more]
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Record Game
Pour 1 cup of plaster and another 250ml of water into an old plastic container. Sprinkle in another 2« cups of plaster and stir with a spoon until the consistency is smooth and free of lumps (like thick cream). Try ... [... more]
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Decorative Ceilings
Plaster used on the walls, ceilings and for decoration in houses of the 19th- and early 20th- centuries consisted of a mixture of slaked rock-lime and sand, bonded together with animal hair, such as horse hair. As ... [... more]
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Choosing Masonry Paint
Grano Patch, a plaster product from Granosite, was then trowelled on. This was used to provide a smooth surface for the paint to stick to, and to fill in some minor imperfections in the sandstone. While the plaster ... [... more]
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Russell Horton
Twelve-year-old Henry York wakes up one night to find bits of plaster in his hair. Two knobs have broken through the wall above his bed and one of them is slowly turning . . .Henry scrapes the plaster off the wall and discovers cupboards of all ... [... more]
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