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I'm offering another FREE plastering workshop in Jacksonville (Sterling Creek Rd), Oregon this summer. You may know that lime plaster requires a curing period of about 10 days which generally prevents me from going in depth into more advanced plastering techniques (brown and finish coat) during a straw bale workshop. That's why this free workshop is so important. We won't be doing any scratch coat work at all. For those of you who have not had the experience of scratch coat plastering, I'm happy to talk you through the process and give you some tips and techniques. That said, the focus of this workshop will be the brown and finish coats, those which are almost never taught at workshops.

In this workshop we will cover the following aspects of plastering:

1. Lime plaster mixing ratios
2. Proper tool list introduction
3. Mixing techniques
4. Lime plaster lifecycle discussion
5. Application techniques including hand application and spraying
6. Brown coat floating techniques
7. Finish coat techniques
8. Window and door protection details
9. and much, much more…

We will work on several different structures so that you can get the full experience of brown coat application and finish application on both the interior and exterior of buildings as each represents its own challenges. By using different buildings, we can avoid the delay of the curing process between coats. Each of the buildings used is in a different stage of plastering thus allowing us to move from brown to finish coat with no delay whatsoever and at no risk to the quality of the plaster job.

Hosted by:  Andrew Morrison (www.StrawBale.com)
When: July 31 – Aug 1 (2 days only)
Where: 7803 Sterling Creek Rd, Jacksonville, Oregon
Cost: FREE!
Details: Camping, bathroom facilities and shower are provided. No meals are included in the workshop.

Please email Andrew@StrawBaleWorkshops.com with any questions or go directly to:

www.StrawBaleWorkshops.com to register