Introduction
1. Understanding and Finding Your Ingredients.
2. How to Mix Your Plaster for the Best Results.
3. Testing Your Plaster
4. Preparing the Surface you Want to Plaster.
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Video Overview: Substrate Preparation and Plaster Application. (9:40)
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Lesson 4: Prepping Your Substrate (Updated 2021) (15:31)
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Lesson 4 PDF: Prepping Your Substrate (Updated 2021)
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Extra: Two Easier Ways to Prime Wood for Earth Plaster. (1:05)
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Extra: Prepping Gypsum Walls, Cement. Drywall, and Non-Porous Brick (PRIMERS).
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Extra: How to Plaster Rough Stone Walls (4:01)
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Practical Assignment: Testing Your Plaster Part 2
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Quiz
5. Applying the Plaster.
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Lesson 5: How to Apply Your Plaster (Updated 2019) (17:04)
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Lesson 5 PDF: How to Apply Your Plaster (Updated 2019)
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Extra: A Beginner's Guide to Using a Trowel with Earth Plaster (3:09)
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Extra: Which Kind of Trowel?
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Extra: Plastering in Cold Climates
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Practical Assignment: Apply Your First Layer of Earth Plaster.
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Quiz.
6. What Went Wrong? A Trouble Shooting Guide.
7. Other Ingredients You Can Add to Your Plaster.
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Lesson 7: Do You Need to Add Extra Ingredients (Updated Jan 2019) (16:33)
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Lesson 7 PDF: Do You Need to Add Extra Ingredients? (Updated 2019)
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Extra: Thinking of Using Lime? Read this First!
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Extra: How to Make a Wheat Paste. (2:57)
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Extra: How to Make Insulating Plaster
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Practical Assignment: Choose Your Additive.
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Quiz.
8. How to Make Earth Plaster Water Resistant.
9. Maintaining and Protecting Your Earth Plaster.
10. Creating Beautiful Finishes (Advanced).
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Lesson 10: Creating Beautiful Finishes for your Plaster (21:07)
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Lesson 10 PDF: Creating Beautiful Finishes for your Plaster
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Extra Video: Creating Beautiful Sculptures, Mosaics and More. (8:57)
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Extra Video: How to Use the Leather Hard Stage to Your Advantage. (4:56)
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Extra Video: How to Burnish Earth Plaster. (2:21)
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Making Clay Paint (1:28)
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Practical Assignment: Have a Go at Burnishing. It's fun!
11. From Plaster to Cob: Using a Mud Mix to Build
