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Is charring really an effective treatment for ground preservation of wood?

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Kakishibu (persimmon tannin liquid)

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How can I naturally (or more naturally) give this checkerboard blue squares?

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I need the recipe for tadelakt

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Repairing lime plaster walls

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Yakisugi (grilled cedar) 焼き杉 - Charring Wood as a Finishing Modality

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What to use on top of two coats of old chipped house paint? any non toxic choices?

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Best oil to treat lumber with

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Requesting recipes for non-toxic, garden-friendly “white wash”

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Painting to appease the Man

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Used Material For Shed Roof

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need ideas for non toxic finishes for pine board and batten siding on our home

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Durable natural wooden floor finishes?

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Least evil paint for a house

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What should I seal my planter boxes with?

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Tadelakt -- a waterproof plaster surface

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Wood Preservatives

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Anyone have a recipe for lime paint to prevent mold in cinder block root cellar?

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Converting latex painted drywall to lime plaster

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Whitewash source or recipe in Canada?

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Requesting recipes for non-toxic, garden-friendly “white wash”

19 replies 9

Least evil paint for a house

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Natural DIY Lime Plaster in a 70’s Build

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Tool restoration - how to get a durable surface finish?

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RMH finish - what to use for render!

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Dressing up a block wall

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Organic Finish for Oak Hardwood Flooring

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Sealing and staining Wood

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Log home exterior refinishing ideas, please?

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Stucco/plaster Direct Over Rockwool?

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Limewash before plastering? Project halt due to monsoon.

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Properties of perlite and waterglass plasters?

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Tadelakt/plaster how to video

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Clay plaster as structural sheathing?

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Earthen plaster onto PIR board

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Buying clay for clay paint.

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Construction Calculators

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Stucco/plaster Direct Over Rockwool?

1 day ago 5 replies

Dressing up a block wall

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Sealing and staining Wood

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Natural DIY Lime Plaster in a 70’s Build

2 weeks ago 8 replies 1 1

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Durable natural wooden floor finishes?

2 weeks ago 7 replies 1 9

Converting latex painted drywall to lime plaster

1 month ago 10 replies 9 1

Clay plaster as structural sheathing?

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Tadelakt/plaster how to video

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Least evil paint for a house

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Log home exterior refinishing ideas, please?

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Tool restoration - how to get a durable surface finish?

3 months ago 7 replies 1 1

Buying clay for clay paint.

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Domegaia and aircrete

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Earthen plaster onto PIR board

4 months ago 1 reply

Properties of perlite and waterglass plasters?

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homestead

Requesting recipes for non-toxic, garden-friendly “white wash”

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RMH finish - what to use for render!

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roundwood and timber framing

Best oil to treat lumber with

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Lime plaster questions

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roundwood and timber framing

Is charring really an effective treatment for ground preservation of wood?

7 months ago 45 replies [ 1, 2 ] 3

Used Material For Shed Roof

8 months ago 16 replies 4

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Kakishibu (persimmon tannin liquid)

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What to use on top of two coats of old chipped house paint? any non toxic choices?

9 months ago 30 replies 4

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PEP BB naturalbuilding.sand.whitewash - Make White Wash

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Organic Finish for Oak Hardwood Flooring

9 months ago 6 replies 7 1

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Yakisugi (grilled cedar) 焼き杉 - Charring Wood as a Finishing Modality

9 months ago 47 replies [ 1, 2 ] 6 18 10

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PEP BB naturalbuilding.sand.claypaint - Make Clay Paint

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Limewash before plastering? Project halt due to monsoon.

11 months ago 4 replies

How can I naturally (or more naturally) give this checkerboard blue squares?

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roundwood and timber framing

Lifetime of traditional roundwood and timber constructions and their finishes

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How To Make Amish Whitewash by Leigh Tate

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best non-toxic finishes for chicken coop?

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Tiling over laminate counter tops

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Can you mix sand into dry bagged type S lime before adding water for plaster?

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need ideas for non toxic finishes for pine board and batten siding on our home

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We have to paint our brick house! help!

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Drywall sheets and walls that are not exactly square

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Drywall on ceiling that's not completely level

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Traditional Nordic Paints.

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Tadelakt -- a waterproof plaster surface

1 year ago 13 replies 5 4

Anyone made their own hydraulic lime?

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countertops

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Type S lime for cob raised beds

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Anyone make their own pine tar?

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