Winter is approaching, and all construction work for finishing the facades is curtailed. They had time to do it, but the colds alternating with rain and snow simply would not allow us to withstand the entire technological process with accuracy. And its violation, as you understand yourself, will lead to nothing good.
But the worst thing in the unfinished façade is that an endless series of warmings and cold snaps in the winter time leads to the destruction of a thin layer of plaster. She caught water during her thaw, and then froze during another cold snap. Water, as you know, expands as it freezes and, as a result, ruptures the layer of plaster. So the abundance of cracks by spring you are guaranteed, unless, of course, take appropriate measures to protect the facade. This so-called preparation of the house for the winter will help your new plaster to withstand all weather disasters. In this article we will discuss how facades will help to save plaster before colds.
So, what do we have? Insulated with foam plastic facade of the house and plastered with the use of reinforcing mesh. All other work on the completion of the facade before the onset of cold weather for some reason, we simply do not have time. The question arises - what needs to be done to prevent the destruction of plaster? How to protect the facade and prepare it for winter?
Preparation of the house for the winter - insulation of the facade for painting
The complex of measures for the protection of the facades is not very complicated and laborious, you have to go through only three technological steps - apply two layers of different primers to the surface of the plaster and perform the painting of the facade .But all in order.
The first coat of primer is not needed to protect the facade from destruction, but to reduce the ability of the surface to absorb liquid. By and large, this layer can also be skipped, but then to apply the main protective layer you will need more material. That's why the plastered facade needs to be opened with a deep penetration primer of the Ceresit CT 17 type - just that it will deprive the surface of the ability to absorb liquid.
Primer - preparation for painting the facade of the house
At this stage preparation of the house for the winter we will need to completely remove the plaster ability to absorb water - even more, it is necessary to ensure that the wall surface repels it. It is for these purposes, and developed a special primer paint with a low-key name Ceresit CT 16. Ask what is special about it?
Preparation for painting the facade of the house
Firstly, it includes quartz sand, which increases the adhesion of the surface many times - so that in the spring when you decide to renew the facade finish, decorative plaster can be applied without any preliminary preparation.
Secondly, these are polymers that are part of the primer paint CT 16 - they make the plastering ability to repel water.
Well, the third reason, explaining the combination of paint and primer, is the possibility of using it as a basis for decorative plasters on acrylic basis. It is CT16 and the color pigment added to it makes it possible to apply an acrylic stucco mixture in one pass so that stains do not appear on its surface.
As you understand, the "fate" of your house depends on how correctly and qualitatively you put the protective mixture. And before painting the facades, you need to properly prepare the primer paint.
Nothing difficult - you already know what color you want to see the façade from day to day? It is this shade and you need to give the paint a primer CT 16 - you can be a bit lighter, it's not the essence.
Painting the facade with your own hands - preparation of primer paint
We pour into the bucket with the paint colorant and mix it thoroughly until a homogeneous mixture is obtained. There is one nuance that needs to be considered - after drying, the primer paint gets a darker shade.
Painting the facade with your own hands - preparation of paint-primer photo
So we got to painting the facades of the house. Painting the facades with the help of ST 16 - it's pretty slow and it's done exclusively with a roller. Quartz sand, contained in the paint, is very long rolled over the plastered surface - to evenly roll out the paint on the roller, it takes up to five minutes. In general, a wall of 30 square meters is painted for about 4-5 hours.
Painting the facade of the house photo
Complete drying of the primer paint takes place per day, so check the weather forecast to make sure that there is no rain.
Well, at last I want to outline one good side effect from the application of this primer paint. In principle, if the facade is covered again with this mixture, then an interesting surface structure is obtained. It is somewhat like a very small pebble plaster or a granite crushed on a wall. It all depends on what color you give this paint.
Painting the facade of a private house
I, for example, might have stopped on this in the process of finishing the facade, do not be such an ardent adherent of the "bark beetle".And what else is needed? Preparation of the house for the winter is completed and it is protected from all kinds of weather conditions - further painting of the facade is not required, at least in the coming years - and the view of the building is quite interesting and not inferior to any decorative plasters.
In general, decide for yourself, it's still your home and you decorate it. But if you remain in the firm belief that without decorative plaster you can not do, then in the painting of the facade with two layers of Ceresit CT 16 there is simply no need, one layer is enough.
Author Sergey Golikov
