fach1werk
2016-09-22 08:07:40
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Lime can petrify like all mineral materials (cement, mortar, sand, glass, stone, earth, also silicate paint...) You might know the term silicic acid or water glass. That means crystalline compounds form between the two layers, this can also happen wet-in-wet, which is how frescoes were made in the past. Nothing petrifies on gypsum or cardboard, they are not mineral. Something adheres there because it is sticky.
Lime gets whiter the older and more expensive it is. It can be absolutely dazzling pure white.
Lime paints used to chalk, nowadays consumers no longer accept that, and unless you insist on slaking the lime yourself and painting with limewash, it won’t happen to you. Yellowing does not have to occur, that depends on other ingredients.
If you take, for example, the lime paint from Auro, the processing is very similar to the paints you know. This paint is also already mixed and ready in the bucket. As a purist, you could also take the lime paint in powder form from Kreidezeit, which is about cream-colored, i.e. the lime would still be very young according to Greek standards. Greeks told me that in their region there is still the tradition that a father digs a lime pit for his daughter at birth so that the lime is ready as very fine building material for the dowry by her wedding.
Lime eats! Wear goggles and long gloves. I once disregarded this. Tiny droplets of blood emerged from my palms after finishing work and cleaning, about the size of sweat. The next morning the skin was like varnished and hardly movable. That was the layer of white blood cells. Not good, I had a baby to diaper.
Lime is still great and I paint all damp rooms with it.
Gabriele
Lime gets whiter the older and more expensive it is. It can be absolutely dazzling pure white.
Lime paints used to chalk, nowadays consumers no longer accept that, and unless you insist on slaking the lime yourself and painting with limewash, it won’t happen to you. Yellowing does not have to occur, that depends on other ingredients.
If you take, for example, the lime paint from Auro, the processing is very similar to the paints you know. This paint is also already mixed and ready in the bucket. As a purist, you could also take the lime paint in powder form from Kreidezeit, which is about cream-colored, i.e. the lime would still be very young according to Greek standards. Greeks told me that in their region there is still the tradition that a father digs a lime pit for his daughter at birth so that the lime is ready as very fine building material for the dowry by her wedding.
Lime eats! Wear goggles and long gloves. I once disregarded this. Tiny droplets of blood emerged from my palms after finishing work and cleaning, about the size of sweat. The next morning the skin was like varnished and hardly movable. That was the layer of white blood cells. Not good, I had a baby to diaper.
Lime is still great and I paint all damp rooms with it.
Gabriele