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Sand Faced Plastering Techniques

To achieve a sand faced plaster finish, two coats are applied - a 12mm first coat cured for 7 days, then an 8mm second coat leveled with a sponge before uniform grain sized sand is applied using a float. Pebble dash finish involves a 12mm mortar layer dashed with 10-20mm pebbles pressed into the surface with a float for an aesthetic appearance.

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Sand Faced Plastering Techniques

To achieve a sand faced plaster finish, two coats are applied - a 12mm first coat cured for 7 days, then an 8mm second coat leveled with a sponge before uniform grain sized sand is applied using a float. Pebble dash finish involves a 12mm mortar layer dashed with 10-20mm pebbles pressed into the surface with a float for an aesthetic appearance.

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Sand Faced Plaster Finish

To get sand faced finish two coats of plastering is required. For first coat, 12mm thick
layer of cement sand mortar in 1: 4 ratio is preferred. The first coat should be provided in
zigzag lines. And then it is allowed for curing for 7days.

After that 8mm thick layer of second coat with cement and sand in 1:1 ratio is applied.
Level the surface using sponge. Finally take some sand and screened it to obtain uniform
grain size. The screened sand is applied on the second coat using skimming float or
wooden float. Finally, sand faced finish with uniform grain size of sand is obtained.

Pebble Dash Plaster Finish

Pebble dash finish requires mortar layer of 12mm thickness with cement and sand in the
ratio of 1: 3. After plastering pebbles of size 10mm to 20mm are dashed on to the
plastered surface. Then press them into the plastered surface using wooden float slowly.
After hardening they provide aesthetic appearance to the structure.

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