Talk:Lime plaster

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This article needs a complete rewrite - it starts off by totally confusing hydrated and hydraulic lime, two distinct chemical substances - and a vital distinction for anybody contemplating using lime plaster. Alas like the other contributor to this talk page I don't know enough to be authoritative, but almost any website discussing how to keep damp out of pre-1919 traditional buidlings is better than this.82.215.159.126 (talk) 19:42, 26 February 2015 (UTC)

Agreed. This is terrible 8-( Andy Dingley (talk) 15:50, 6 November 2019 (UTC)

This article needs help!

I came here to learn about lime plaster, but this article has not provided much authoritative information. I would undertake to improve it if I had time, and if I knew anything about the subject. (If I knew about the subject, I wouldn't have come here in the first place.) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.71.119.146 (talk) 04:34, 28 June 2011 (UTC) Some photos would help to see what lime plaster is. A local plasterers talked of "dado" and think that is lime plastering but not sure?

Limes, hydraulic and non-hydraulic

The text has at least a couple of mentions to "non-hydraulic hydrated lime", though this is redundant and suggests there is a hydraulic type of hydrated lime—which there isn't. Calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2), also known as hydrated lime or slaked lime, is a non-hydraulic material by its very nature. It doesn't have the properties that would allow it to set and harden through a hydration reaction with water, like hydraulic limes do. In light of this, I suggest either we remove 'non-hydraulic' or 'hydrated'. Carlospt (talk) 16:51, 19 December 2024 (UTC)