What Are the Tools You Need for Plastering?

The demand for interior finishing with decorative coatings stipulates a great interest if these coatings can be applied on one's own and what tools one needs. You can find information about coatings of TM Maxima-decor, which don't require special skills. in the plot of «Decorative coatings, which one can apply on one's own». And you can find the information about tools in this article.

Plastering Tools

A stainless trowel. It is used for applying and flatting a plaster. You can also form a relief pattern or picture. There is also a plastic trowel. It is intended for forming texture and material compaction.
A spatula is always used together with a trowel. It is intended for the same purposes as a trowel, like applying and flatting the coating, creating relief on the surface and forming the pattern.
There is one more multi-purpose tool - a roller. With a roller you can prime the walls, apply decorative coating, and form a texture. You can also buy a roller with a certain stencil. It is an auxiliary tool, that allows you to create patterns on decorative coating.
A ceiling brush and a brush are suitable for applying thin-layer coatings and wax. They absorb well, hold and distribute decorative materials on the whole surface.

Auxiliary tools

Stencils are used to create relief. Their assortment has a great variety: from stonework to oriental patterns.
A straightener. It can be smooth or relief. The smooth one is intended for polishing and the relief one is for the creation of patterns, for example, "1000 lines".
A polisher with fur pads is necessary to create gloss for Venetian plaster.
One more option to create a pattern without additional effort is with the help of stamps. They can imitate textures of wood, stone and other relief.
A sponge can be used to create color accents on the coating or to apply wax.
A masking tape is necessary for protecting surfaces against decorative products or creating pictures or textures.
Sandpaper is normally used for polishing the surface. Polishing creates an appropriate roughness of the coat, which improves adhesion for further application.

Tools for surface preparation

Priming and applying quartz-primer are obligatory stages for applying any kind of decorative coatings. For priming, we recommend AQUA PRIMER 1:10 TM Maxima and it is easy to apply with a roller or a brush. Also do not forget to cover spaces with a masking tape, where you don't plan to apply decorative coating.

For a high level of adhesion use Quartz Primer TM Maxima-decor. It makes applying and texturing of decorative coatings easier. Apply Quartz Primer with a brush, a ceiling brush or a roller with the nap of 7-12 mm.

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Venetian Plaster Tools

For work with decorative coating STUCCO VENEZIANO you need a stainless steel Venetian trowel. All kinds of work like applying the coating, forming a pattern and applying the wax CERA LAVABILE are done with a trowel and a spatula. You need sandpaper for polishing and a polisher with fur pads for even glossy glitter.

Tools for coatings with quartz filler

We refer to the products with a quartz filler DUNA and GALAXY and a convenient tool for applying is a ceiling brush. Due to the natural nap and quite a large area of the brush, the quartz filler spreads evenly on the tool and as a result, homogeneously lays on the surface. You need to add additional brushes with an artificial nap to form a structure. Depending on the direction of movements you can create various effects: sandy dunes, diagonals, marine waves and others.

Tools for thin-layer coats

OTTOCENTO and ARABESK are pearly, thin-layer and very delicate coatings, that imitate silk, velvet, atlas or velour. Apply the first coat with a roller (we recommend a velour roller. It creates the required thickness of the coat), Venetian trowel or a stainless high-quality trowel and a spatula. Form a texture with a metal trowel or a plastic trowel. The option depends on the chosen effect. For example, the classic technique of applying OTTOCENTO "eight" or the technique of applying ARABESK "bamboo" are meant to use a plastic trowel to form a texture.

Tools for textured plaster

Textured plasters and precisely ART BETON, MARMORINO and TRAVERTINO are applied with a metal browser and a stainless steel spatula. You can create relief with a straightener, a trowel, a spatula, a stencil or a stamp. We recommend using wax for relief plasters CERA or wax for facade plasters CERA FRONTALE to protect ART BETON, MARMORINO and TRAVERTINO. Apply wax with a ceiling brush, a brush, a roller or a trowel, and remove the wax remains from the surface with a sponge.