We are making final preparations before starting an extremely interesting project for O'Donnell Tuomey. It's a six-storey-high facade on a very unusual building, the Sean O'Casey Community Centre on East Wall, Dublin.
On this project, we are using a very unique system where we apply specially enhanced natural hydraulic lime base-coats over the cast concrete substrate. The system follows almost identically the process recommended by Vitruvius; the granulation of the first layer is 4mm, the subsequent layers then grade down as follows: 2mm, 1mm, 0.8mm, 0.6mm, 0.3mm, followed by olive oil soap and potassium silicate.
Eleven processes - a far cry from three layers of acrylic enhanced hydrated lime that some try to pass off as "marmorino".
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