What texture plaster walls in the interior is better?
The rough surface of freshly plastered walls will look great in any room, but in the bathroom, where all the surfaces are regularly exposed to moisture, a more reliable facing is required. And in the kitchen, where there is also steam, along with smells and spray of cooking food? The question is controversial and depends first of all on how actively the food block is used and on what basis the mixture chosen by you is. Before making a textured plaster or using a ready-made plaster, compare the different options.
So, there are four most common and widely used types of plasters - mineral dry mixes, as well as finished acrylic, silicate and silicone. Someone does not trust ready-made compounds, as there is a stereotype that such plasters lose quality during transportation and storage.
However, each solution has its expiration date specified on the container, and within it the characteristics remain unchanged. Acrylic textured plaster in the kitchen will be applied without any difficulties, and most importantly, it will be very reliable, even without preliminary preparation of the walls. Why did we mark this option? Let's look at all in detail.
Wall finishing with textured plaster - what do you need to know?
Most home craftsmen know about mineral compositions not by hearsay, because they have to be used regularly for small needs. As a result, dry mixes are used for large-scale finishing works. However, such finishes require careful preliminary preparation, which includes and priming. Do you need extra difficulties?
Acrylic finished compounds with high climatic stability are sold in plastic sealed containers, they can be applied on the surface as soon as you unpack the container. And there is no need to thoroughly clean the surface, and priming is not needed. Conveniently? Undoubtedly.
For mineral plasters, different primers are used, depending on the composition of the mixture. Applying an incorrectly selected primer, you degrade the adhesion of the finishing mixture to the surface.
It remains to consider the silicate and silicone mixtures. The first of them seems to be all good - made on the basis of potash glass( viscous, of course), it can be applied to both old mineral coatings and to the same silicate finish. However, even with its excellent vapor permeability, this plaster is rarely used, because it requires a silicate primer and coloring materials on the same basis, and even ecologically harmful is considered.
Another thing silicone compounds, they also have high adhesion with mineral and dispersive bases, perfectly skip steam, but in addition, they also have dirt-repellent properties, along with moisture-proofness. The only drawbacks are the very high price and the need to use silicone primers.
What is the expected consumption of textured plaster?
Even if the building mix is purchased by you at a very low price with all its high quality, the beginning of the finishing works usually shows that it would not hurt to buy more. How to calculate the consumption of textured plaster with the greatest degree of reliability, so as not to take it too much, spending extra money, or too little, then losing time on a trip for another batch of material? First of all, look at the packaging or ask the consultant, perhaps you will immediately get an exhaustive answer, how many kilograms of the mixture will go by 1 square meter.
As a whole, be guided by what type of granularity the mixture is chosen by you for finishing. Based on the fact that the plaster layer usually corresponds to the grain size, which can reach 5 millimeters in diameter, the flow rate will be the corresponding .Fine-grained finish will be the most economical, although least spectacular, and the composition with large filler fractions may require up to 2.5 or even 3-4 kilograms of plaster per 1 square meter.