Decorative plaster TRAVERTINO for facades
Travertine is a natural stone, which originates as a result of the long-time process of lime deposits. Natural travertine has an uneven texture and colors deviate from sandy gold to red, green and greyish brown.
Cera Frontale
Decorative wax for facade stuccos coating
Travertino
Facade stucco with natural stone effect
Coating facades with travertine is always in trend. Travertine is beautiful and durable, unique in its structure and variety of colors, as well as the other stones of natural origin. Travertine is known from ancient times as Tiburian stone and found a wide implementation in Ancient Rome. The most famous buildings made of travertine are a building of Coliseum in Rome, which survives till the present time, the San-Marco church, the first bridge, which was built in Rome and many other incredibly beautiful buildings all over the world. The biggest building made of travertine is St. Peter's Cathedral in the Vatican and is located in Rome.
These examples prove the quality of travertine and its traits to hold its structure and appearance through thousands of years. Travertine is always decided to be a stone of prosperity and wealth. Its pleasant pastel beige and yellow tones relieve and create an atmosphere of warmth and coziness.
This is the very product is demanded in decorative construction works. The mantling technology of travertine on facades is very popular nowadays. Travertine is used for finishing facades of buildings, premises and coating floors and paths.
The price of natural stone is affordable not for everyone. Nowadays the imitation of natural stone is widely used as plaster TRAVERTINO.
You can find options for applying the plasters with natural stone effect on facades here.
You can read about TRAVERTINO in the interior here.
In this article, we tell you about decorative plaster, which imitates travertine, its traits and techniques of application.
What is TRAVERTINO for facades
TRAVERTINO - is a facade plaster with the effect of natural stone. It contains acrylic copolymer, milled travertine, extenders, water and additives. Sometimes people called TRAVERTINO "a liquid travertine". But you shouldn't mix up. Liquid travertine is a dry mixture of fine-grained travertine particles and copolymer binder, which are dozed in buckets and require to add water before use. Facade plaster with the effect of natural stone TRAVERTINO is a ready-to-use mixture for interior and exterior works.
Features of TRAVERTINO plaster for facades
Decorative plaster TRAVERTINO refers to the group of quite popular finishing products from the point of view of price and quality. Though this type of facade plaster refers to an expensive price segment, its aesthetic and practical value is fully worth its money.
Due to the unique elaboration of elasticity level, facade plaster TRAVERTINO doesn't crack from vibration and small deformations. It also obtains high resistance to moisture, vapor permeability, endures easy freezing, high temperatures and any other weather effects, that prevent the surface from cracking. The coating can mask defects of the core surface (pits, lugs), and when there are various techniques of applying the facade plaster, you can create unique effects on the surface.
This plaster is a hard material that will serve you long and will not lose its attractiveness.
The texture of plaster TRAVERTINO can be various: porous on the surface, matt and polished.
Facade plaster TRAVERTINO is intended for finishing houses, terraces, pillars, friezes and areas near the swimming pool. It is necessary to use protective wax CERA FRONTALE Maxima to provide additional protection for surfaces with a high exploitative load.
We don't recommend using facade plaster as a floor coating.
The plaster and the protective wax are easy to tint which makes your work with this product more comfortable and let you embody all designer's ideas.
The plaster TRAVERTINO is used for exterior and for interior finishing works. The only difference is to apply the wax. When you apply decorative plaster for exterior works coat it with CERA FRONTALE and for interior works with CERA.
How to apply TRAVERTINO plaster for facades: description and video
The texture of the finished stone is quite simple and is a rough surface with small smooth spots. That’s why the technique of application of façade plaster like travertine is not used for complicated variants. Let’s have a detailed view of the process of application.
You shall prepare the surface before applying TRAVERTINO:
1. Stabilization of the base surface.
TRAVERTINO is a hard plaster that wouldn’t stick to a loose surface. Everything that moves and waves under your push or tool strikes shall be removed:
- If the surface was not previously coated, it shall be cleaned from fragile coats, dust, oil, grease and other contaminations to the hard base surface.
- If the surface was previously coated, it is necessary thoroughly clean the surface from old loose coatings (loose paint and varnish coats) mechanically (with a scratcher, a wire brush), thermally (hot air fan, infrared radiation) or chemically (with paint removing solutions). Chalk and lime coats shall be removed till the hard base surface mechanically. The surface shall also be cleaned from various contaminations. Too deep pits shall be filled up with reinforcement.
2. Cracks removal.
A cracked wall is an unappropriated surface for decorating plaster. If the gap is badly fixed, it will reappear and rip the new coating.
The cracks can be removed in this way:
- Widening. You clean the crack and enlarge its width. The edge of the crack shall be cut with 45° angle to the very bottom.
- Reinforcing. You shall apply the first (thin) coat of plaster on the wet working surface. Then apply the reinforcing net. And finally, finish it with the plaster to the thickness you want.
Apply some extra plaster on the place and make the surface even after drying with a trowel.
3. Preparing the surface
Make the surface even, dry and clean from dust beforehand. Then prime it with AQUA PRIMER (concentrated primer 1:10). After drying (less than 2 hours), apply the adhesion primer with quartz filler (QUARTZ PRIMER). Use the roller with the medium nap. The drying period is 24 hours.
The main purpose of priming is to harden the base surface and increase the adhesion of materials.
4. Apply the main coat of TRAVERTINO.
At this stage form a rough texture of stone. There are several application techniques and the results are various.
You can see the examples of applying here.
5. Polishing and flattening.
After forming a rough shagreen surface, it is flattened with a trowel. Do it before the decorative plaster shall get dry. The tool shall press the surface slightly without effort. The direction of flatting is recommended along the pattern. After this polishing, the surface has smooth areas together with small pits and rough particles. The plaster dries in 24 hours, though it achieves complete hardening in 28 days.
6. Wax applying
It is necessary to apply a finishing coat of decorative wax CERA FRONTALE to add plaster TRAVERTINO maximal traits. It adds a gloss of a polished stone and can additionally shade the plaster and emphasize the texture. Apply the wax with a finishing brush, a roller, a sponge, a spatula or a brush. This product dries quickly to the touch and dries completely in 12 hours.
You can see the video applying façade plaster with a natural stone effect from the links.
How to apply Travertino - Lava
How to apply Travertino - red travertine
Buy facade plaster with the effect of natural stone (TRAVERTINO)
You can buy facade plaster TRAVERTINO all over the territory of Ukraine (Kyiv, Lviv, Dnipro, Odesa and others) with various delivery services or pick up the products from the brand shop in Sumy, Herasima Kondratiiva Str., 6.
We can deliver the products directly to the site for free (conditions are discussed individually depending on the difficulty of the order).
- 17.08.2022