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Subject0: plasters@masterofplaster.com
Date: 02 Oct 2007
Time: 11:22:13 -0400
Remote Name: 67.142.130.24
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If you go to our homepage at masterofplaster.com and click on the helpful hints section you will find some info on whitewash (calcamine). Whitewash in its most basic form is just lime and water mixed to a consistancy of heavy cream and applied with a heavy corn brush. Like anything else there are varying degrees of quality and the better whitewash is a fairly elaborate formula. Several contractors have used mop as a whitewash for both interior and exterior work on very prominant buildings with great success. Just fill the larger cracks with mop basecoat (sometimes they mix just a little Portland cement in it). Then thin the mop finish to the consistancy you want and brush it on. Some of these buildings were done 5-6 years ago and still look like they were just done. Hope this helps. Mike