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| AUTHOR: | Cedar Rose Guelberth, Dan Chiras, Deanne Bednar |
| CATEGORY: | Book |
| MANUFACTURER: | New Society Publishers |
| ISBN: | 0865714495 |
| TYPE: | Construction - General, Design & Construction, Do-It-Yourself, General, Home Improvement / Construction, House & Home, Building construction & materials, Home & House Maintenance, House & Home / General, The Environment |
| MEDIA: | Paperback |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
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Customer Reviews of The Natural Plaster Book : Earth, Lime, and Gypsum Plasters for Natural Homes (Natural Building Series)
Plaster Master I just finished building my strawbale home -- and am very grateful for this book. I have nothing but great things to say about it. This book picks up where others leave off. An absolute must if you plan on using natural materials on your home. One must understand that working with natural materials is hardly a science-- and a fair amount of experementing must be done to get satisfactory results. But the effort will be worth it! Get this book-- you won't be sorry. FYI-- I used an earthen plaster (clay,manure,sand) on the interior and exterior, and finished the interior with an alis and the exterior with a lime plaster and lime wash-- beautiful results!
Good starter book, not enough detail for a really good how to guide
In reading this book you'll find descriptions of the various types of building materials, not just straw bales, these plasters are used on (it is not really a build yourself a house book) and a pretty good overview of the types of plasters themselves.
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>I'm not done reading it but don't find enough information to consider it a complete how to guide, more of a starter book. You get some recipes for pigments/ plasters but not much detail about applying the stuff. I've found nothing about measuring the walls to determine just how much material you'll need and I don't think it really tells thickness, just how many coats to apply (not really detailed about that).
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>There's an extensive resource guide at the end of the book, you'll need it if you're actually going to build a house of some sort. If you are collecting a set of books on building and finishing a home this one is all right as a starter book. You'll learn just enough to know whether or not this is something you want to be getting yourself into.
high on hyperbole - short on details
Not worth the money as a technical reference or how-to book. Otherwise a pleasant read with some inpired pics and a very general overview of the process. Speaks, for the most part, to strawbale contruction as if strawbales are some naturally occurring thing harvested from the wild when are in fact a product of energy intensive industrial agriculture. Fails to provide important technical details such as estimating for coverage, application on masonry, frame and other 'natural' structures, guidelines for plaster preparation. If you already have building experience and skills there are far better reference books available to actually base work upon.