Lime and its use in
mortar, render (stucco) and plaster

A selection of the selection and use of lime in plastering, brickwork, rendering and lime washing. If you find any other suitable article on the web which could be added, please submit it to us.

• A series of very good appropriate articles from buildingconservation.com addressing:
  
  
  • What is Lime?
  • Lime the Basics
  • Lime Mortars and Renders: The Relative Merits of Adding Cement
    
  • Pozzolans for Lime Mortars (Materials which enable lime mortars to set more rapidly i.e. ash and brick dust)
  • Gauging Lime Mortar
  • The Technology and Use of Hydraulic Lime
  • Traditional Lime Plasters
  
  
• Lime FAQs
  A short set of FAQs dealing with lime plaster. US
  
  
• Lime plaster
  General guidelines for using Natural Hydraulic Limes in plaster and mortar.
  
  
• Lime plaster
  Article explaining the different types of materials, their uses and combinations. Why use lime, using lime with cement, lime in brickwork, lime in render and lime in plaster.
  
  
• Lime plaster
  Lime, its uses and how to select the material for the job.
  
  
• Lime plaster on Riven lath
  Article explaining the application of lime plaster on laths.
  
  
• Lime washes
  The different types of lime wash available and their uses.
  
  
• Repairing historic lime plaster
  Article addressing common plaster problems and repairing historic lime plaster.
  
  
• Working with lime
  Guide to making lime lender (stucco) and lime plasters.