Walling the walls with lime

Lime is undeservedly neglected today. Meanwhile, sometimes it is much cheaper and more practical for finishing work to use precisely whitewashing. Walls, once covered with lime for painting with water -based paint, must be cleaned of old whitewashing, spaced and soaked with soil. Often it is easier and cheaper to beat them again. In addition, lime has antiseptic qualities. Thanks to these properties, whitewashing the walls and ceilings is recommended in schools, medical institutions and kindergartens. Watching is used for both internal and external work.

Where the whitewash is used

1. Lime is used for whitewashing not only residential premises. Garage, basement, various utility rooms or animal corrals whiten with lime solution. Gashenic lime not only gives fresh white color to the walls and ceiling, but also disinfects the room.
2. Literation with lime is used for painting fences, and in garden work, trees are flooded. The lime is not afraid of dampness, the whitewashed walls in the basement or cellar do not require secondary whitewashing for several years.  After drying on a whitewashed wall surface, a strong crust forms, which clogs small cracks and fastens the plaster layer.
3. The lime layer was whitewashed in bathrooms, showers, pools and baths, thanks to the film formed on it, protects the walls from moisture, because It differs not only by strength, but also with moisture resistance.
4. During the preparation of lime for the whitewashing of walls, organic dyes are sometimes added. As a result of mixing with slaked diluted lime with the pigment, you can achieve the necessary shade of any saturation.

Equipment for whitewash with lime

For work, you will need:

• a bucket of water;
• brush or maclovice;
• protective clothing (rubber gloves, glasses, gauze bandage or respirator);
• it is not recommended to whiten the walls with a painting roller. When applying the second layer of whitewashing, the roller begins to “pull” the previous layer;
• walling the walls with a spray gun significantly saves the consumption of lime solution. Electric or pneumatic spray guns are used for work, sometimes garden mechanical sprayers or even vacuum cleaners are adapted.

Lime is a sufficiently caustic solution and you should not neglect with means of protection during hits. DIY whitewashing is not so much difficult as dirty work. Before work in the room, the floors and furniture are covered with a film.

Lime consumption for whitewashing

1. The amount of consumed lime depends on the method of application, porosity of the surface and consistency of the lime solution. When covering the walls with a brush with a brush, the consumption increases. For brick or walls of porous materials, lime will be required more. On average, a half -liter of white -white whitewashing takes 1 m2. On sale there are negative lime, a gun in the form of powder and a lime paste.
2. The lime of the fur is divorced in a ratio of 1: 3. If you dilute a pack of 2 kg of the gash -lime powder of the fur in 6 liters of water, then the resulting finished solution for whitewashing is enough for 12 -14 m2 walls. Lime powder is poured with water and stirred. The time of complete soaking of dry lime powder is from 0.5 to 2 hours. From time to time, the mixture is stirred until a homogeneous mass is formed. The remaining lime lumps are kneaded and the solution is filtered through a small sieve or gauze filter.
3. Lime paste - diluted with water 1: 3 and after thoroughly stirring, is ready for use. As a result of stirring, a solution is obtained, comparable in density with the consistency of liquid kefir.
4. It is important to achieve the necessary density of the solution. Liquid lime solution gives pale saturation of the surface, and too thick when drying can begin to bubble and fall off.

The solution of lime for whitewashing the walls in a closed container and at a plus temperature has an unlimited shelf life. Unexpected lime has the form of small comments and can also remain in a dry state for a long time.

How to extinguish lime to whitewash walls

1. Prepare a metal container for damping lime. In the process of extinguishing, lime releases heat, boils and splashes. Therefore, take care of protective equipment. Rubber gloves and glasses will not hurt. Drops of the lime ramp, which fell on the skin, can cause chemical burns.
2. Break large pieces of stuck lime, put them in a metal container and pour three parts of water. After contact with water, the process of extinguishing begins. The first 10-20 minutes the solution behaves aggressively-the effect of boiling with the formation of steam is created. For this period, the container can be covered with a lid or departed.
3. Periodically stirring a lime talker - leave for 6 hours for deoxidation and detachment. After the detachment, insoluble elements, small pebbles and garbage particles are removed by filtering through a small sieve.
4. Lime milk is almost ready for use. To give the best qualities, experienced experts add salt and olifa to lime rap. For 10 liters of bucket of talker 30 gr. Olifs and 100 gr. salt. Sometimes a little blue is added. Salt and blue give the solution a whiteness, and the Olifa strengthens adhesive properties. As a result, whitewashed walls do not stain clothes and have a fresh white color.

Preparing the surface of the walls for whitewashing

1. Before whitewashing, the walls are cleaned with a dry hard brush of dust, dirt and poorly abstract particles of old whitewashing. Large cracks or destroyed areas of plaster are putty and aligned. Ground small cracks will be tightened during whitewashing with a solution and after drying will not be visible.
2. Yellow stains from water flows are wiped with a damp sponge with whiteness. A solution of copper sulfate helps well when removing the spots of the fungus or mold. The surface of the walls should be absorbing and processing with soil mixtures that create a protective film is not recommended.
3. It is better to start whitewing in cloudy weather. So it is better to visually determine the correctness of the strokes with manual whitewashing with a brush. In addition, lime does not like quickly drying under direct sunlight.

The procedure for whitewing with lime

In the interior, the floors and furniture are covered with a film. A working suit, a headdress, rubber gloves, protective glasses and a respirator are put on.

1. For a spray gun, the lime solution is thoroughly filtered. Spraying begins in circular motions from the upper corner, holding the fitting of a spray gun at 90 ° to the wall at a distance of 15 - 20 cm. It is necessary to choose the optimal mode so that the flow does not appear. To apply the second layer of calcareous whitewashing, it is enough to give the first layer to dry a little.
2. With manual whitewashing, the brush is pre -soaked in hot water for half an hour. Natural fibers soften, and the lime mixture better and more even on the surface of the walls. Correctly start whiten from the upper corner and from the window. The resulting leaks are wipe with a brush in dry places of the wall. The light from the window allows you to determine the direction of movement of the brush for flat whitewashing without stripes.

Mclovice is used to whitewash the walls of brick, utility rooms, fences or trees.

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